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YOUR UNCERTAINTY.

The Artist Carroll™

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

an artist merging old and new art the old-fashioned way, using sable paintbrushes.

My temper is under control.

Today, I compete to win.

"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 wordsmithery

with a prize-winning 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.

A Texas House Representative wanted me to be the State Artist Laureate. But I didn't keep track of the 50+ news features, quietly gave 5,000 signed Arkansas prints to DFW hospital patients, hadn't yet published a book, ... and didn't sell via art galleries or exhibit my artwork, hence I abandoned his suggestion.

FITNESS/SPORTS INFLUENCE

"I've been a Little League Baseball fielder, a Varsity tennis player, a wrestler, a belted martial artist, a velodrome sprint cyclist with an RHR 28 and VO2 max 75 and alternate to Nationals as a newbie racer, SCUBA assistant instructor, a 4:08-mile PB runner - 20 yrs of sub-sixes at 80% effort and ladders on the track - I was slow as a lightning-fast runner. In bicycle sprinting, I toed the line trusting a successful outcome, as with painting.

As of 2026, I took up watercolor 32 years ago and stuck with diet consciousness and 10k running fitness, now, power walking.

I paint very, very, fast.

"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 Nikes in Spain when he studied with the celebrated international artist Alcaraz (See top photo).

Carroll's 1st running shoes were Onitsuka Tigers.

ART-RELATED LAGNIAPPE

"I'll always remember the experience of

Dr. Barnes, PhD, MD home and seeing his world class, cherry-picked art collection.

I'll always remember a field trip to Bowman's Hill as a 5 y/o Junior Curator at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel (Originally, of Philadelphia), where I became a Limnology & Ecology Division published Principal Investigator on environmental impact statements (EIS) for British Petroleum, Scott Paper, P&G, Potomac Electric and water supplier, Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission (WSSC).

I'll always remember sunny, hot Texas, where I opportunistically built a boutique brochure marketing biz from scratch - and sold it once I returned from Spain.

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

Art taught me to see holistically and traditionally, to see and to laugh at myself and innovate eclectically.

"My #1 watercolorist is Paul Cézanne,

#2 is Winslow Homer,

#3 is Thomas Moran,

#4 is Vincent van Gogh.

My favorite color is Winsor Red, followed by Cerulean Blue and Forest Green.

"I've petted a nesting dove in the wild,

a snarly German shepherd, caged Bengal tigers, a black panther, and a bobcat.

"The art on your walls quietly molds your empathy, creativity and insight.

It can be 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 priory ... My WC art attracted world leaders and amazing, influential 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 pitcher sinker-slider teammate.)

"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 Burgoon in Baltimore, MD.

One son enlisted under Gen. Washington.

Washington encamped on Rebel Hill on his frigid march to winter at Valley Forge, where we lived in the 1950s.

"I know who I am, how I got here, and

what I want! I Keep YHWH first".