The Artist Carroll™

"Yeah, I'm priced very high and

worth every penny you pay".

THIS FAQ and REMOVES ALL

YOUR UNCERTAINTY.

"I never went to art school. I'm self-taught,

an American artist merging old and new art

the old-fashioned way, using Series 7 sable paintbrushes. I mastered patience,

enjoy being fit/sports and doing negative splits.

What's the lesson from art?

Science and art dance deliciously

on the corpus callosum.

"I began drawing meticulously as a 4½ y/o about Christmas after my older sister perished in 1955 on Rebel Hill in Conshohocken, suburban Philly. At 43 y/o, watercolor enriched my vocabulary.

"A global business owner apprised me,

'This [Carroll] will hang between my 2 Picassos and a Chagall on my ranch.' You should have watched him giddily bidding against himself, as if it was Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. Yee hah.

FITNESS/SPORTS

"I've been a Little League Baseball fielder, a Varsity tennis player, a wrestler, a belted martial artist, a sprint cyclist with an RHR 28 and VO2 max 75, alternate to Nationals as a newbie racer, and a 4:08-mile runner - I was slow as a fast runner, too short for basketball and small for football. Then,

I picked up watercolor and stuck with fitness/sports and negative splits!

"The idea that the harder you work,

the better you’re going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement

is made by the man or woman who

works most intelligently".

- Bill Bowerman, University of Oregon Track & Field Head Coach, Co-founder, Nike. Carroll wore thirteen pairs of Waffle Racers annually changing to a new pair every 250 miles and wore his Nikes in Spain as he studied with the celebrated international artist Alcaraz. Carroll's 1st running shoes were Onitsuka Tigers. He wears Asics now.

"Just do it"

- Dan Wieden, coined the Nike tagline

LAGNIAPPE

"I wear Wrangler cowboy jeans and a T.

I'll never forget the experience of visiting Dr. Barnes home and witnessing his cherry-picked collection. I love Homer's, Marin's, John Singer Sargent's, Audubon's, O'Keeffe's, Rockwell's, and Edward Hopper's Cape Cod, watercolors.

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India was an avid watercolorist. She loved her Series 7s.

"I see what others do not see.
私は、他人が見えないものを見ている。

You wouldn't believe the story of how I learned to paint clouds! So too, the big dog story, the sunflowers, and roped in from above. Art taught me to see holistically and traditionally, to live intuitively, more than skin deep,

to see as an artist in life.

"The art on your walls shapes your empathy, creativity and diagnostic seeing. It's medicine at its best.

"Arts patron, Kitsy Westmoreland had her son take her picture with me at a black tie aboard the Queen Mary, amidst 40 MOHs, where a Knight Commander, Knights of Malta, who reported to the Pope, invited me to join his cadre of Americans Reagan and Carter, Soviet/Russian Gorbachev and some South American presidents in his distinguished priory. And on and on ...

Art put me in touch with amazing people.

"Otra vez". "Again". (He said)

- Don Fco. "Paco" Alcaraz

Carroll's favorite film is Miracle (2004, produced by Mark Ciardi, et al. Another mentor was Ciardi's Brewers sinker-slider teammate.)

"The two most important days in your life, are the day you were born and the day you found out why".

-Mark Twain

"I was named in homage to our Carroll County next door neighbor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence (1776) - We sailed into Maryland on the Lydia from Burgundy, France - where Arches® Aquarelle, my favorite Bright White Cold Press is made. Our patriarch boarded the tall ship as Johannes Jacques Burgund and got off as Johan Jacob Burgoon.

One son enlisted under Gen. Washington.

Washington encamped on Rebel Hill on his frigid march to overwinter at Valley Forge, where we lived. (I was a kid.)

"I know who I am, how I got here, where I came from and what I need/want! My self-imposed deferred compensation and isolation are terminated.

YHWH opens doors that can't be shut!

I Keep Him first".