Andrew Roda has quite a past—and a future that is glowing bright. He walked onto the polo team in college despite not knowing how to ride a horse. He did a lucrative stint as an East Coast investment banker before going to Hollywood and serving as Johnny Depp’s stand-in for a Tim Burton film. He’s hiked the Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim in less than a day, and he’s done the Ironman a few times. Somewhere in between those adventures, he taught himself to paint— and he’s pretty darn good at it.
Roda, at work in his backyard studio in Los Angeles, California, has an infectious enthusiasm for seemingly everything—especially art. “I was always painting,” he says, describing childhood experiments with watercolors, acrylics, and eventually oils, which remain his medium of choice. “There was no artistic background in my family. It was kind of a joke, like I was from the milkman, except that I was the spitting image of my dad. I studied everything, but I was definitely the kid with the sketchbook and the construction paper…
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Doris Day
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36″ by 48″
Coca Cola Cowboy
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