The cowboy industry lost a great talent when then seven-year-old Allan Rodewald picked up a paintbrush. Rodewald grew up in Michigan and according to his mom, he always wanted to be a cowboy. Then he took an art lesson and suddenly he stopped playing cowboys and started drawing them instead.
"I took my first art lesson when I was seven years old. My parents saw that I got it, I understood [working] in two dimensions so they took me to more lessons. I was in second grade and I said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' In fifth grade, I sold an oil painting. That's when I started saying, 'I'm an artist.' [When God was handing out talent,] he gave me a big slice of art and not too much of anything else. From the beginning, it was like I had no other choice in life and I'm super happy with that."
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