(Cowboy working cattle) FOLLOWING THE CLOUD (22.5" x 32.5") is in Carroll's 1st Ed. of Ode to Joy. The foreword is written by Four-star General Tommy Franks, a chivalrous warrior, and world leader, who reported to SECDEF Rumsfeld and George W. Bush. It's Plate #25, p. 97. --- In 2018, Carroll sketched a novel idea to promote polo. Friday he'll be at Willow Bend to see the first match of the year --- Row #1 on the new aluminum bleachers, he watched Norm Brinker and the boys play his first month in Texas. He'd gotten "hooked" on polo in Brandywine. He likes that familiar "earthquake" Sylvester Stallone quote! He also likes Cambiaso's 70/30 quote. (Photo. Plein air, Spain 1994.) MASLOW'S TOP RUNG. "Foremost, my watercolors are a diary I have kept since 05/1994." ◆◆◆ Oeuvre ~1,000.

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"I was too reserved to be an expressive creative.

Mom & Pop were both famous doctors.

So, I became an environmental biologist.

That resulted in my unique artistic-scientific proficiency and mastery of correlations.

Watercolor demands a different kind of thinker.

Joe Charbonneau, CPAE, NSA North Texas Chapter told me, 'If they're not wind in your sails, but an anchor on your tail, I have one word of advice. [Silence] RRRUNNNNNN!!!'

Best advice I ever got.

A centuries old Brazilian family paved the way for me to go to Spain and learn under D. Fco. Alcaraz. My first patron was a horse-loving, Phillips Petroleum heiress that married a rodeo cowboy (fullback for the Super Bowl winning Dallas Cowboys).

Blue Label moments, all y'all!"

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Only a handful of artists get the chance to learn from a living master held in all of the world’s top art collections - the Louvre, The Met, El Prado, ... Count 'em on one hand! How many are displayed beside Picasso!

I had a big crush on my 7th-Grade Art Teacher at General Wayne,

Kathie Dugas. She refined my drawing skill by depicting hands in pencil and showed me Albrecht Dürer's The Great Piece of Turf.

Miss Dugas was a peach --- and the shop teacher's sweetheart!

She was a beautiful young Moore College of Art and Design grad.

Most sheep-skinned artists decry me and my self-taught stuff.

So, I landed in Texas cowboy country and loved it, all y'all!

I was a scientist with cow sense who could draw.

So, I became an artist with biz savvy - I am not a big name,

cognoscenti's showman who never made a thing.

And, if you don't know me, that's fine."

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COLLECTORS: "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" ANS: "YES." YOU ARE the WORLD'S ELITE. IT SEEMS TO ME that people buy my art for one of these reasons: a) Make custom note cards with a painting featuring you playing your hobby. b) It talks to you. c) You love it. d) Gifts for your spouse and friends. e) Make an edition of signed and numbered, museum-grade prints for your children and special clients. f) Own the largest, most prestigious collection anywhere. g) FREE when used to promote your entreprises - Deduct it as allowed by law. h) Be applauded by friends worldwide. i) Own it all - beat others to the real trophies! and more Superstar/Hall of Fame reasons. j) It's image-boosting, prestigious fun! k) Kings use art to build their legacy. l) A surprise gift for your sweetheart --- The best of the best of the best "Kadupul bouquet" for every reason, including enhancing ongoing client relations and securing / landing exclusive international supplier contracts.
CARROLL: INTROVERTED, V. INTUITIVE, TACTICAL EMPATHY, SUPERB LISTENER, AUGMENTS YOUR SUCCESSES, REGULARLY HITS THE BULLSEYE, WARM, KIND, a MEGA-EIQ, RIGHTEOUS, SINCERE, an EASY-GOING SMILE, with STRONG BOUNDARIES. He is quietly passionate and faith-filled. "Painting is pure fun and a boundaryless, miracle-filled adventure. You start with a blank canvas in a championship match called life, and lift trophies from the top step again and again and again. I am from Texas, became an acuarelist in Spain, and returned to Texas."

The self-taught Cristóbal Colón, "Admiral of the Sea,"

publicly sponsored by the Spanish crown:

"It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures."

Abhinav Bindra,

Olympic Gold Medalist 10-metre Air Rifle:

"I was like a boy in a candy store."

Magnus Carlsen,

World Chess Champion, World Rapid Chess Champion, World Blitz Chess Champion, Chess World Cup Champion, #1 FIDE ranking:

"Without the element of enjoyment,

it is not worth trying to excel at anything."

Critics dismiss BUT, the public raves the chart topping,

André Rieu, violinist, plays the 1667 Stradivarius, Captain Saville,

conductor, Johan Strauss Orchestra, entrepreneur:

"I first picked up a violin aged five -

I just assumed everyone played."

Born in "The City of Brotherly Love," discovered in America's Cowboy Country: Spaniard Alcaraz, housemate of Picasso in Paris, polished Carroll's artistic genius --- So RARE in the last 500 years that Dallas Morning News ran features as soon as Carroll returned. Dallas Times Herald reported Sr. Alcaraz' visit to Texas back in 1977. The orphan child prodigy, was hired by The Prado, the Louvre, and New York City's Met to carve frames for their exhibits. While Carroll was with Sr. Alcaraz in 1994, Alcaraz carved and gold-leafed frames for Carroll's paintings. The Art Appreciation teacher at GVSD, home of the "The Patriots," BGEN Kessler (USMC Hall of Fame) implored Carroll to be an artist. Alcaraz told Carroll to make one simple adjustment. Now, he is consistent and has lots of fun.
"IT SEEMS TO ME that my patrons are in control, striving for excellence, but demanding virtuosity. Perhaps, it would help to have a specialty coach, someone who sees your core value and helps people appreciate you. That's what I do." Carroll learned a lot from pitchers. The "How to" insights are in his brushstrokes and compositions, like a Doctoral Dissertation abstract or an Atlantic Monthly essay. The family that built the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC built a Derm hospital for Carroll's dad, who made it No. 1 in this world. "My paintings are more than skin deep! They touch hearts and minds globally."
★★★★ INTERNATIONAL. a) Serene Majesty The King of Spain Juan Carlos I conveyed his delight with Carroll's paintings of his country. HRH's letter came through the Spanish Embassy with the Ambassador's courtesy translation and cover letter. b) General Tommy Franks, USA, Ret., waived his world leader's fee to pen the foreword to Carroll's 1st book, Ode to Joy, because he wanted to help. Jimmy Jack Whitaker introduced Franks. The HOF Nashville guitarist's brother was a Vietnam War casualty. (jimmyjackwhitaker.com) c) Twelve paintings of popular Holy Land destinations were mailed gratis to 75,000 non-profit supporters (out of 400,000 benefactors) globally for an Illionois non-profit's custom "tourism/loyalty" calendars. Pura Vida!

"Computer code and AI do unmatched 246 mph straightaways ---

Again and again. Terrifically fast, BUT stoical and passionless.

Comparatively, watercolor is as exciting as Dolfi playing polo!!!

Given my experiences, sport and tourism are my go-tos."

SANTA FE, NM. The city requested a painting to promote the city's golf amenities to 4-star tourists. AND back in Texas, a AA baseball painting attracted 10M viewers in 2 months. "I always wanted to paint some polo magazine covers and one of my patrons fly fishing on a famed Rocky Mountain trout stream. Ooooh, and King Charles III painting Balmoral Castle plein air using HRH Queen Victoria's Series 7s, a Highland piper playing Scotland the Brave on the rocky coast, a Burghley Horse Trials winner (The Burgoon's headmaster at Fox Hollow Farms won it on Victoria Bridge.), a Cambridge eight rowing River Thames - A hand at Burgoon's was an Ivy League rower, whose dad was an eight Olympic Gold; Cowboys, trailriders, and fútbol - The granddaughter of FC Flamengo co-founder, and 1st president in 1895, arranged Carroll's art studies in Spain. Later, she took him on a personally-guided tour of Rio de Janeiro. Waggoner Ranch was Carroll's patron - Waggoner Ranch is a massive six-county kingdom - 535,000 acres (835 square miles) inside one fence - The largest in Texas and in all of North America (Including Alaska). I have a soccer painting to put on a wine bottle label, like Salvador Dalí did for some friends in 1958!
BOTTOM LINE: Carroll does bespoke paintings showcasing a person, firsthand. He paints singles, diptychs, triptychs, and series on WC paper handmade in France since 1492. "I got a visualization technique from my 84 y/o coach of 8 or 9 US National Champions, and later augmented it with NLP. I see a painting in my mind, then quickly paint exactly what I saw. No time for a sketch. I paint so quickly they simply appear on my easel. It's like jump shooting ring-necked pheasants! You don't think about it, you just do it."
Texas Tea (Top of this web page) was made from the patron's photographs of the Colorado River and outcrops near Austin, TX, and patron-supplied rock strata IDs and makeup, seismic data and petrogeology maps detailing the information shown on the patron's lap top computer --- including the drill train reaching to 20,000' and the wildcatter pointing to his success. It was made for biz promotion.
YOU CAN SAY "NO" TO MY IDEAS AND PRICING AT ANY TIME. * The King's Bling™ $15,000+/sq. in. for existing paintings. Bespoke originals, $30,000+/sq. in. plus, expenses. Your curator can have your Carrolls framed to taste. IDEA: Put the artworks in a family foundation or museum. LOA * Framing, S&H, taxes, etc. not included. Price may change w/o notice. Usage is sold separately, only to direct patrons. FCFS. ☆☆☆☆☆ You can't have the atelier's extremely expensive backroom "Super Bowl trophies" UNLESS you are Carroll's #1 direct art patron. (An enthusiastic fan owns 15+ originals. She brought select clients who became Carroll's patrons, too.) "IT SEEMS TO ME I charge too much for a little piece of paper with some colors on it, and most people would agree. Well OK then. I got over it."

Carroll:

"Take big risks or live in a safe cage? --- I began flying lessons.

I was 4½ y/o."

"I stood all alone in my image-building firm at 4:00AM, and said,

'Father, you made me and know me better than any anyone.

Please reveal my gifts and show me how to use them.'

That's how I got to Spain and became like a child.

I was 43 y/o."

LAGNIAPPE ("The Baker's Dozen") for AVID ART COLLECTORS

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One of Carroll's King's Bling™ is beside two Picassos. So. His teacher, Alcaraz, did two-man art shows with Pablo Picasso. Carroll was a decorated ATM-Silver Toastmaster under the wing of a Texan who became a HOF International President. He got a commendatory note from the XLI President of the United States of America. Carroll gifted Pauline his "Ice breaker" painting, and, after returning from Spain, gave 525+ art talks in 9 months at SMU's AAUW chapter, University of Chicago Alumni, NAWBO, BPWI, EBBY HALLIDAY, TRAMMEL CROW, BRINKER, ... live on radio and TV. Carroll became a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow when he got back from Spain.
The 1st edition of his 1st book, Ode to Joy (2013) was published by Hummingbird 57. Hummingbirds (Beija-flor, ~365 species) are loving, flower-kissing, courageous, feisty, weigh less than a penny, aerial acrobats doing the impossible for Gold Medal gymnasts,Top Gun pilots, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, these glitzy flying jewels travel thousands of miles to Central America --- They are UNIQUE in the Western Hemisphere.
Travel: Brazil, Portugal, Spain, USA. Carroll ran Yosemite, hiked Anaconda Pintlar Wilderness without map or compass, canoed the Boundary Waters catching dragonflies, camped on active Prairie Chickens booming grounds, hiked the Grand Canyon, backpacked the AT, rafted the Yough, birded the flyway in New Jersey, canoed the Pine Barrens, hiked Acadia, the Great Smokys, winter tented on Peaks of Otter, ... dined in El Yunque, da Tijuca, Copacabana, Roten Ochsen, the Portuguese Riviera, hiked to the caves at Puentedey, ate pizza in Wissembourg, France, toured Heidelberg, and El Greco's home in Toledo, saw the World Expo in New York and later in Sevilla, rode Bondinho do Pão de Açúcar after sunset, and raced his bicycles all over USA. Carroll collected maps with ideas for big adventures in many travel destinations. Hummers, orchids, waterfalls?

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Carroll's art hobby/quest began upon the death of his sister,

Helen, who had just had her sixth birthday. He was 4½.

Carroll used proceeds from the sale of his Blue Ridge home

to self-publish the Ode to Joy 1st Edition (2013), then donated

99.3% of 2,618 books to nonprofits. He'd had to have sold

a whopping 383,000 books merely to break even.

Carroll asked a pro sports team owner for help and heard:

"If it's so important to you, do it yourself." Carroll did.

The King of Spain loved his 2013 copy, as did Ross Perot, Sr.,

who gave it to his daughter, acc. to their head of security.

GEN Franks glass-cased signed copies with his autbiographies

by Pres. Bush, PM Thatcher, SECDEF Rumsfeld, GEN Powell,

and Four-star General Franks' own, "My Life as a Soldier."

GEN Franks termed Ode to Joy (OTJ) "therapeutic"

and wanted it in homes worldwide. A SEAL said her dad,

a military defense contractor, saw OTJ in Australia.

In 2023, people ask how they can get a book.

No. The news media never knew about it -

"I am grateful to those who believe in me."

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Carroll plein air by Helena Braga Pereira da Cunha, 1994.

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