EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 15 © 2016 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

42 went to business school in Missouri, and worked for sixteen years as a graphic designer, before deciding that he would pursue an artistic career instead. Mostly self-taught, Andy was inspired not only by such great Western artists as the aforementioned Remington and Charles Russell, but by other painters and illustrators such as Richard Schmid, Norman Rockwell, Charles Dana Gibson, Bob Tommey and Howard Pyle. Though Andy knew that if he wanted to become a painter and sell his work, he would have to broaden his horizons, so he paintedmany different subjects. As Andy says: “I don’t Text continues on page 46 FACING PAGE: “We followed the Marshal’s lead and bade our mounts down the ridge”, from The Hunted . ABOVE: The Mustanger was a hard-riding cowboy who trailed a herd of mustangs into a trap in a narrow canyon. LEFT: Let’s go is one of Andy’s many graphite drawings.