Carroll is "The Paintbrush Poet"

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"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 demand excellence but expect virtuosity. AND I've mastered patience.

What's the most important lesson from art?

Observation, analysis, flexibility and timing;

Science and art dancing together

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 helped me as I lacked insight and vocabulary.

"After a fundraiser a businessman told 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.

Some people believed in me before the world did! YHWH opens doors that can't be shut!

I keep Him first.

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

A Yale MFA (Art History), who was a Yale museum curator, called me 'Genius' and 'Tiger' with a higher IQ than her 160. Picasso was 175.

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 - At 5' 7.5" I was too short for basketball and small for football.

"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 shoes running were Onitsuka Tigers. He wears Asics now.

"Just do it"

- Dan Wieden, coined the groundbreaking

Nike tagline

"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.

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

"One of my mentors negotiated the largest player contract the NFL had ever seen.

Several NFL Hall of Famers and Bestselling authors wrote 10 pages of testimonials for my 1st book, Art for Peace, Joy & Inspiration

(Unpublished/deleted, 1997) -

I avoided my dad's worldwide reputation".

"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.)

"A quarter horse-loving oil heiress paid my way to Spain with the caveat that she get first pick of my watercolors when I returned. I skimped, saved and donated continuously incl. once I'd made it; A multibillionaire company founder coached me - My Ode to Joy (2013) journal was on his daughter's desk.

"My greatest teacher/advocate was enthusiastic, highly driven, charismatic, Toastmaster, Pauline Shirley, DTM, PDG

in District 25 (Texas) and PIP, to whom

I gifted my 'Icebreaker' watercolor,

Day lilies in my backyard, mid-June, 1994.

U.S.A.

"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 learned to corner on my English racing bicycle across the Matsonford Road in Calvary Cemetery. I was 7 y/o.

"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. I want/need

dear friends, Norwegian sweaters, a simple

lifestyle in a cold temperate coastal forest, fishing boats, tides, sea gulls, rain on a metal roof, snow by the cubic foot, dirt trails, wild caught salmon, cod, low-fat grass-fed beef, shore birds, bears, moose, wolves, elk, ..., wild berries, Goldenrods, blueberry pancakes,

a big kitchen garden and homecooked meals.

Hold my hand, kiss me. Home sweet home.

I plein air paint, watercolor, and

I Keep Him first". 07180507