Carroll is "The Paintbrush Poet"

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"I never went to art school. I'm an autodidact,

an American artist merging old and new art

the old-fashioned way, using Series 7 sable paintbrushes. AND I love, love, love athletes!

I love staying fit and doing negative splits,

have been an ever-changing outcast in the arts world, and mastered intuition and patience.

Now, I'm 75 y/o. I'm an avid perpetual student,

a teacher. I teach selectively. I'm good at it.

I pass it forward to those who serve(d);

My doctor mom and doctor dad taught me.

They were tireless.

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.

"I loved poking around our woodland stream,

canoeing the Pine Barrens, Boundary Waters, birding, running Valley Forge NP, cycling inland Maine, backpacking the Appalachian Trail and running Yosemite, ... Track and road bicycle racing up and down the East Coast, running, ...

It all benefitted my ability to paint".

"I was a Principal Investigator at The Academy of Natural Sciences (Pre-dated the Smithsonian and the Franklin Institute). I wore jeans, a t-shirt and running shoes when I interviewed with the Harvard PhD Section Leader. I was dazzled by the busloads of kids buzzing our exhibits and Moore art students drawing our panoramas. I left the Academy wanting to help people to love themselves and as a result take better care of our environment.

"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 used 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.

"We dined at a nice Cedar Springs restaurant. I showed Alcaraz my Purple Thistles. 'Come to Spain and I'll teach you to do what I do.' I was the first person ever allowed into his atelier.

Alcaraz taught me to paint one-on-one.

I was told to leave my Prismacolors at home.

"The art on your walls shapes your empathy, creativity and diagnostic seeing.

It's medicine at its best.

"I wear jeans, a T-shirt and running shoes;

Heck, that's the way I met General Hugh G. Robinson (MIT and USMA civil engineer) who became my weekly mentor. That's the way I met Four-star General Tommy Franks USA (Ret), commander of U.S. forces in a 25-country region. General Tommy Franks penned the foreword to my 1st journal, Ode to Joy., introduced by a Country Western Hall of Fame and CGMA Award Winning guitarist, singer-songwriter - Produced by recording artist, multi-Grammy and Dove Winner, Gary S. Paxton of Branson, Missouri, USA. I sent a 1st Edition to Serene Majesty The King of Spain and got an appreciative letter 9 days later, with a courtesy translation and cover letter from the Spanish Ambassador in Washington, D.C. GEN Franks, FMR USCENTCOM commander, gave me a personal introduction to the President of the United States. 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.

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

I deleted 1,200+ news media from my LinkedIn, ducked Oprah and Hollywood, etc. My electricity and water were shut off; I slept on other's sofas and was homeless. I had to know the answer. It's an agonizing story of passion, persistence and purposefulness.

It's a Mark Ciardi story - One of my mentors was a sinker-slider pitcher with Ciardi and the Brewers. Jimmy, Vince and Ussain Bolt were on my Linkedin. Several NFL Hall of Famers and Bestselling authors wrote 10 pages of testimonials for my 1st book, Art for Peace, Joy & Inspiration (Unpublished and deleted) -

I avoided my dad's worldwide shadow.

My fields are prepared for rain."

"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) was on his daughter's desk according to the family chief of security. The King of Spain sent me a gracious letter. (At the bottom of this page)

"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.

I was on Pauline's #1 in the World staff.

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 became a licensed Cat 4 racer in 1973 after a wreck at 190 miles on a one-day ride; I rode home in an ambulance. 10 months later, I was in the state track championships racing 'kilo' and match sprints. Then, I ran a whole bunch of sub-sixes daily for 20+ years. I still love riding my bike v. fast but cautiously drive my car.

I'm a technician. Thus, I paint!)"

"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead".

-ADM David Farragut