💖 💖 💖 💖 MISSION: TO COMFORT & ENCOURAGE THOSE WHO MOURN with POETIC, CALMING, TIMELY WORD PICTURES EVERYONE IDENTIFIES WITH. "Carroll's" stimulate your imagination, the cultivated, the erudite, intellectuals, and everyone else. This essay is a spot on press release for investigative reporters and very busy people. (You may conveniently "cut and paste" and publish this human interest story, or punch the keys about some rotting dead shark that washed up on a beach. "I hope my art inspires and compels the world to a better place. The painting above, The Helping Hand, states my purpose. May I not shrink from my purpose, Incepto ne desistam. Picasso said, "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." And, he famously noted, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
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A MSG FROM a SCIENTIST / ARTIST
"I was alone, an outcast, and lost.
I felt like a stupid, worthless, bastard,
and struggled with survivor's guilt.
An authority, a celebrity's psychologist,
told me, 'You're a miracle!'
Everyone needs one.
My teacher made an unusual visit to the United States and was reported by a major Dallas newspaper in 1977. My parents lost their first child and never recovered. Helen was my older sister, my leader. I was lost, alone, and reckless. My ΦΒΚ pediatrician mom's dad died during the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression - Mom was 10 y/o. My dad was a renown skin cancer doctor and prof. Pop's PTSD meant misery for us, but not to his numerous adoring patients. Pop never took a day off, hated holidays and vacations, and made Sundays work-around-home days. I'm an INFP-MBTI kind of guy. Painting in watercolors was my healing, quiet reflection, exploration, and overwatch. AFTER burning out as a scientist and MBA schooled guy, I chose to drop out and make a difference and a living as an artist. My art is displayed with Picasso in Texas.
--- Welcome to my 1-man art exhibit ---
THE PAINTBRUSH POET™
Ebulliently , CARROLL
Kevin Costner said, 'Success is not a destination, but a journey.' My journey began with my sister's death. I had a tough time dealing with it and finding myself. My parents stayed together, somehow. It took me decades to locate the missing pieces
of the family puzzle. I was 4 y/o when it happened. She was 6.
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🡆🡆🡆 "At one of his two-man exhibitions with PICASSO, Picasso moved his works aside and put my teacher's work center stage. Alcaraz was Picasso's housemate in Paris. 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖 AUTHENTIC, UNIQUE ASSETS DIVERSIFY YOUR PORTFOLIO. My art has youthful décolletage, THE BENCHMARK in LUXURY & FASHION. My experience as an artist is so unusual in the last 600 years of art history that I gave 500+ public talks in nine months when I got back. The world's #1 Toastmasters district honored and prepared me - The president of the United States of America noticed and sent me a note. YOUR LIFESTYLE is not affected by bulls or bears. COLLECTING FINE ART IS A TRAPPING OF GREAT WEALTH. Richard Burton noted: 'This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip. Vous pouvez vous permettre ce navet ou vous ne pouvez pas. OWN AN ENVIABLE MUSEUM-QUALITY ART COLLECTION. ⯁⯁ IT'S 100% FREE when a qualified tax deductible expense, donation, ... $3,500* archival giclées. HUGE SAVINGS for surgical and procedural specialists ($1,749.99 exclusive)*
"Why? My parents were both medical specialists,
therefore, it's a 'professional courtesy.' "
YOU CAN INSPIRE "LEGACY" PAINTINGS
A great Chicago ".org" licensed 12 Carroll's of spectacular Gold Medal tourist destinations for custom printed calendars mailed gratis to its top 75,000 most generous benefactors worldwide. Carroll worked with their ad agency president in Dallas, Texas.
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Another of Carroll's art patrons performed with
the New York Metropolitan Opera and did repeat solos
for the President of the United States of America ---
As a teenager.
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Another mirthful patron's bride phoned Carroll at 6:00AM on Christmas morning to tell him that at that moment her PGA Tour Champion husband was moving their home's furniture around the painting Carroll had made for her for a surprise to her superstar husband. Carroll does not advertise or promote such artwork.
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Carroll painted son and daughter playing beside a park waterfall for a Big Pharma heiress; And he rendered the plantation mansion of a Booze King with the family puppy greeting friends. A Fort Worth scene went to a Cornhusker cattleman; A barnyard cat in a San Antonio garden went to an oil company president, and the dockside chef's cat at the century-old Club de Yates de Río de Janeiro helped put New Mexico's orphans in loving homes. He was in movie theaters and the evening news a few times.
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An oil company president, and art patron, showed his new Carroll to a billionaire Bass brother across the hall, who remarked,
"A friend of mine [in Highland Park, TX] just bought three."
It was Carroll's painting of a strong-willed calico cat titled,
"Soft Eyes" or "Catitude." It was about who you keep 1st.
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IMAGINE
Carroll cowboy or polo or 3-Day event sketches
on a collection of WINE bottles (labels).
💖 Baron Philippe de Rothschild, wine connoisseur, Château
Rothschild, has a wine bottle label designed by Picasso.
It's displayed in Rothschild's Oenophile collection.
MANY PEOPLE HELPED ME
Some were powerful and mighty, others, good friends.
- ★★★★ TESTIMONIALS. a) SM 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 in Wash., D.C. with the Ambassador's courtesy translation and cover letter. b) Gen Tommy Franks, USA, Ret., waived his world leader's fee to pen the foreword to Carroll's book, Ode to Joy, just to help. HOF musician Jimmy Jack Whitaker introduced Franks. The former USCENTCOM commander (U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, Knighted by Queen Elizabeth), who oversaw a 25- country-region, remarked that OTJ should be in every active duty, veteran, and family member's hands. Gen Franks sat on the National Park Foundation board of trustees with David Rockefeller. "My painting He First Served as a Private is in his Leadership Institute." OTJ is in GEN Franks Leadership Institute and Museum alongside books by "W," PM Thatcher, Rumsfeld, Powell and Franks." ★★★★ Twenty years before, the world's top brain surgeon wrote, "Simply inspirational." One day, the CEO of corporately-owned medical specialists telephoned me from Houston saying, "You've been referred by Dr. ______ _________ (America's premier boardroom consultant - WH, Harvard, DOD, all Fortune 100) and that can only mean one thing. You must be [very, very] good." Word of mouth does it! BION.
- The Knights of Malta. With 40 Medal of Honors in black ties, the Knight Commander of a priory offered membership in his cadre of presidents and kings from the Western Hemisphere and Europe. "Westy" had invited Carroll to his 50th wedding anniversary where he supped with real heroes. His ADC made the arrangements; COL Roger Donlon was the first MEDAL OF HONOR in the Vietnam War. The hero penned a testimonial for Carroll's first book --- The Knights of Malta directly served the Pope and were protected by him. ☆ The Dallas Cowboys head coach and billionaires were among the high visibility "face of the team" clients of the artist's philanthropy consultant. "She phoned from Michigan one day after I spoke at SMU's AAUW chapter and introduced me to MG Robinson (USMA, MIT, BELO Corp trustee, who was my mentor). An oil company president took me to Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary dinner. Ross Perot called me to advise me."
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The Burgoons are the Burguns from Burgundy France, and were until our cordwainer patriarch, Jean Jacques Burgun, anglicized our family name (in 1740) while aboard Lydia sailing to Baltimore, MD in the Colonies. (See P. 91??? Ellis Island records.) He settled next to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last living Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Burgoons were probably from the feisty, combative
Burgundiōnes who kicked butt all over Europe starting in ca. 249 AD when they returned to the mainland from Burgundarholmr Is. The Kingdom of the Burgundians became part of France; others joined Attila's Hun army, or shrank into a Swiss chalet. I'm here because 130 "Rock Happy" UDT-14 frogmen (Navy SEALs) kept my dad alive on USS Bull APD-78. Bravo Zulu. Friends call me, 'Lobster.' Nah. I'm just a "Rock Happy Yankee," a farm boy.
(BUT, NOT a USN SEAL)
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ART PHILANTHROPY.
- Children: 35 original paintings to The Adoption Exchange, an eight-state non-profit placing children in safe, loving homes in honor of Sr. Alcaraz, a prodigy and orphan at 7 y/o. Carroll's interviews ran in the Evening News for two weeks. Others in honor of Dr. Jane Smiley Burgoon, MD, the artist's trailblazer Mount Vernon, SD mom: Plano International Preschool, HOF QB Dan Marino's (Autism) Foundation, McKinney Holy Family School, DBU, Dallas Theological Seminary, etc.
- Healthcare: Baylor, Children's, LLS, Scottish Rite, and Parkland, in memory of his sister, Helen, who died of Reye's Syndrome a few days after her sixth birthday party. Others in honor of his dad: National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation, Four-star Leadership, and Fisher Houses.
- "I enjoy enriching the stakeholders top to bottom. I FOCUS ON GRASSROOTS SERVICE." Edward L. Bernays said, "Truth is mighty and must prevail, and if any body of men believe that they have discovered a valuable truth, it is not merely their privilege but their duty to disseminate that truth."
IT'S AMAZING WHO CALLS ME and WHY! I answer my own phone.
Ron Anderson, MD, CEO at Parkland Health, treating 1 million patients-a-year, wanted Carroll's in every room and hall of the (33) thirty-three largest public hospitals in the United States of America.
- Imagine!
A REFERRAL FROM A NASHVILLE HALL OF FAME MUSICIAN ----
Four-star General Tommy Franks, USA (Ret.) declared that Carroll's "therapeutic" Ode to Joy journals should be in every service member's, Veteran's, and each family member's hands worldwide. When I asked for a personal introduction to Former President George W. Bush, 15 minutes later GEN Franks called back, "Good to Go."
- Imagine!
"I was 3 y/o when I began fundraising for people who needed help. It's an old habit that matured from individuals to proven charities.
I began by helping orphans. An orphan helped me - I was 43 y/o;
It was Don Fco. "Paco" Alcaraz in Madrid, Spain.
When I was 4½ y/o my sister died. I began drawing pictures in our Encyclopedia. I matured the way a sea wall weathers hurricanes.
I was 4 y/o when I began tennis lessons at the country club and started collecting and identifying butterflies and moths and making Riker mounts. I developed fine motor skills and surgical dexterity.
I was 5 y/o when I was a Junior Curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and saw artists renovate the bobcat diorama. Mom & Pop gave me a microscope and chemistry set. I was a fielder for the As and the Senators in Little League Baseball. At Connie Mack, I saw Casey Stengel, Yankees manager, step from the dugout and tip his hat to us. Later, I was a pitcher for the Red Birds.
"I was on cloud nine ... I'm gonna run to first base harder on base on balls ... I'm gonna score a run and beat your ass ..." - "Charlie Hustle," 17x All-star, 3x World Series, 4,256 career hits, 3,562 career games played, started for Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies.
When I was 6 y/o,
I mastered the lost art of composition with a '57 Brownie Starflash
and built models of naval ships and CV airplanes w/o instructions.
It was great preparation for starting a painting on a blank canvas -.
A puzzle with w/o instructions, unlimited pieces of unspecified size.
A masterful painter imbibes that thrill.
When I was 8 y/o,
our family moved to the historic Lutheran/German community of Chester Springs, PA, home of a resort spa, St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, and other National Register Historic Places.
When I was 12 y/o,
I mastered drawing hands in 7th Grade at General Wayne JHS;
My teacher, Miss Kathie Dugas showed me Albrecht Dürer's
pen-and-ink drawings and watercolours to guide me.
That was when I learned to read what matters -
Posture, hands, eyes, ... and causative insight.
My compositions were inspired by America's first commemorative
postage stamps, the 1893 Columbian Series, engraved from actual paintings. Many were panoramic masterpieces - few could afford.
"To give anything less than your best,
is to sacrifice the gift."
Steve "Pre" Prefontaine was coached by the co-founder of Nike.
The artist Carroll ran through 13 pairs of Waffle Trainers each year
when he lived in SE Pennsylvania and Newark, DE, he used to run 95 sub-six miles in five days each week and got smoked by the St. Joe's and Villanova guys; Carroll wore Nike flats when under Sr. Alcaraz' tutelage as a painter in Spain in 1994. "I have a photo to prove it."
He played varsity tennis, ran pretty fast (PB 4:08, 8:56, 31:57), but excelled racing his track bicycle the fastest of them all.
"No one knows what curves life will throw at you, but if the driver has the courage to create his own conditions, then the rain is simply the rain."
Enzo (The Art of Racing in the Rain, 2019)
When I was 43 y/o, an artist was born.
A BRAZILIAN ARISTOCRAT MADE IT HAPPEN TO ME!
"I'm 'Muy excitado.' My paintings stir your heart to action.
I've been a fulltime watercolor artist since 07.04.94.
Elena Braga Pereira da Cunha of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
made the arrangements for me to study under Paco Alcaraz.
She was from a very powerful and influential Colonial family,
went to school in England, and was fluent in five languages.
Her brother was liaison for a soccer club founded in 1895.
Their granddad co-founded Clube de Regatas do Flamengo
for Rio's young socialite men and ladies; His full statue
greets players and visitors to the team clubhouse.
Elena loved fine art and traveled as it pleased.
That's how she befriended D. Fco. Alcaraz.
They met in lovely Montmartre, Paris.
She must be 80 to 90 y/o now.
Her sexy daughter left me
for another fellow.
MY "BACKYARD" ART/SCIENCE CLASSROOM
✔ I lived with a brilliant mom, famous dad, Ivy Leaguers,
doctors, researchers, professors, generals, admirals, ...
Old Money, heirs, heiresses, and superb advisors, front
and center dinner table talk and silent scholarly pursuits.
We had a large vegetable garden, a sprawling orchard,
raspberries, black walnut trees, native snow Crocuses,
wine berries, black raspberries, hemlocks, and spruce.
I've traveled to 44 States and 7 or 8 other countries, ...
a platinum spoon childhood shaped my artistic tastes.
Hara hachi bun me 腹八分目
ナツ、ニンニク、クルクミン、カイエンペッパー、緑茶
(Nattu, garlic, curcumin, cayenne pepper, green tea)
Spirit 精神
Earth 球 Terre Erde धरती Tierra
Water 水 Eau Wasser पानी Água
Air 空気 Luft वायु Aire
I have royal expectations and virtuoso standards.
Purple is my top color (Genuine vermillion and Blue smalt).
Sports? Only the best of the very best.
My favorite movies: The Wizard of Oz,
the epic Western, Dances with Wolves,
a film re. giftedness, Finding Forrester,
Medicine Man, Goldfinger, Indiana Jones,
Incognito, Something the Lord Made,
The Art of Racing in the Rain.
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci,
Girl with a Peal Earring by Joh. Vermeer
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee and
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp,
by Rembrandt, who left a massive legacy, and
15-y/o Picasso's Portrait de la mère de l'artiste,
--- GO TO YouTube's
Vincent van Gogh, Dr. Who and Amy visit the Musée d'Orsay
"Home to many of the greatest paintings in the world.
&
THE ALL-TIME GREATEST WATERCOLORISTS:
Dürer, Cézanne, Kandinsky, Klee, O'Keeffe, J.M.W. Turner,
John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, JJ Audubon,
Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Wyeth, ..."
"All my issues are resolved. I am free to go. 'Spring' rain. My inspiration loves it!"
I'm donating my art, memorabilia, etc., and
my new Ikigai project Mayflies and Caddis.
Jag är slagen av en melodisk, tonal röst. Jag är på väg till det idylliska Northwoods och Northern Lights ... och en hel del 'vårregn' !
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