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"For out of the box thinkers. Watercolor was recognized as an art form in Chinese manuscript painting around BCE 4,000. WC remains prominent to date: J.M.W. Turner, Georgia O’Keeffe, Claude Monet, Audubon, Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Qi Baishi, Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Picasso, ...

"They burned boundaries to ash.

None painted pretty pictures to go with rich sofas or to fit a room. I paint to move heads, hearts, souls, and mountains. Each work is a symphony, a melody against the ordinary.

I left the East Coast. Philly.

“Fort Worth is where the West begins and Dallas is where the East peters out.”

- Will Rogers

"I rinsed my brush in my crystal of Cab, used my toothbrush on some Botanical Garden works, sandpapered a dozen bespoke Holy Land pics, tore up stacks of my originals and hundreds of professionally shot 4 x 5's. I sold my purple thistles drawing for $100 just to get it out of my sight - Hey. I'm just a fast, highly focused, adrenaline-flooded, gun-jumping, relaxed sprinter at heart calm at the core!

Steps to an unignorable Truth.

"I was making precise, detailed drawings

and played with color when I was 4½ y/o.

My Phi Beta Kappa mom and internationally sought dad, who had a specialty hospital built for him by the family that built Brooklyn Bridge, and Burgoon progeny paid a price for their PTSD. My parents wanted a scientist -

I'm a painter-poet-philosopher".

WATERCOLOR is a WILD BEAST only the bold and elite dare to master.

WC requires a different way of seeing, thinking and creating - To make it sing multiple octaves. WC is much more difficult than oils. People say WC is "unforgiving" BUT, Carroll make sing.

MADE IN "COWBOY COUNTRY" TEXAS,

the land that gave us John Wayne,

J.R., rivers of oil, IT and Tesla.  

The smartest money knows wealth isn't stocks or real estate ... it's owning pieces of a mind that refused to follow the herd.

   My art isn't just for the wealthy to hoard or

   the elite to debate. It's for every soul to feel, to reflect, to live, to see with refreshed eyes. It's meant to teach, to be shared, AWESOME

by nature, naturally. I'm just a boy still playing in the woodland stream below our home.

"It was a Brazilian lady, granddaughter of the co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, 1895, who arranged my study

with Don Fco. Alcaraz.

Helena was a woman of patience, of wealth, of presence. She reached out across the ocean to ensure the training of this up-and-coming artist. She contributed a woman's touch to art history.

She was my patron saint of possibility.

"I paint LOVE, because love isn't soft, it's hard.

I paint LOVE fiercely, wildly, and deeply.

I paint with the fury of a prophet

and the patience of a saint.

I began drawing Northwest Arkansas

with Prismacolor in 1991.

"Four-star General Tommy Franks (Ret), former USCENTCOM Commander overseeing a 25-country-region including the Middle East, penned the foreword to my first book, Ode to Joy.

"A Hall of Fame musician introduced us.

Kitsy Westmoreland had her NY attorney son take her picture with me at a small private dinner aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, attended by 40 Medal of Honors and two

Knight of Malta Commanders who reported to the Pope. Arrangements were made by Westy's ADC; I was the guest of a Knight of Malta oil company president. The dean of neurosurgery, a Knight of Columbus, hosted a private lunch for me in his office. An A.H. Belo Trustee mentored and championed me; As did Ross Perot and his philanthropy consultant. The list goes on and on. I slept in my car, on friend's sofas, dined at Food Pantry, and lived in a homeless shelter.

Sometimes on both sides of a sheet of paper -

I kept on painting.

"Poppy had been a U.S.N. doctor, Third Tide, on Dog Green, D-Day and Chief Medical Officer on U.S.S. Bull in the Pacific. I'm here because SEALs kept his boat unmarred. BTW, I did not serve.

I paint to make them all proud".

An IQ 160 Yale MFA (Art History) watched Carroll paint and stated, "His IQ is greater than mine."

and labeled Carroll, "Tiger." Genius IQs: Vincent van Gogh est. IQ 165 and Picasso est. IQ 175.

Famous Historical Genius IQs

"My given name, Carroll, honors our Maryland neighbor, last living signer of the Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

Burgundy, France. Our surname was Burgund

boarding the Colony-bound Lydia in 1740; The Burgunds disembarked Burgoon. They were 100% opportunity seekers. Pioneering Burgoons from Ohio settled in Fort Worth, Texas in 1850;

Burgoons fought in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, WW1, WWII, Korean War,

Vietnam, ... 134 years later I flew into Texas, escaped my dad's shadow and old beliefs,

and established my identity - The Lone Star State permeated my artwork. After 42 years in North Texas, I chartered a jet and flew to the wild heart of the Rockies and new adventures.

A peppermint sprig of history ...

"Burgundians lived on Burgundarholmr Island,

Denmark, before returning to the mainland.

Burgundians conquered 4th Century Europe,

fully 1000 years before Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance of the arts and sciences.

"The president of the U.S. sent me a note saluting me for my community service.

I didn't know he was watching. Cool beans.

"I'm a SYMBOLIST. I paint meaning with emotion, not pigments, provoking thought. I hang with Picassos and Chagall on a Texas cattle ranch".

"I paint with the spirit of the West not in spite of the world's chaos ... but in Light of it. I step into the eye of the storm where I find complete stillness. I have an abundance mentality - Maslow's pinnacle."