"ART gallery. I learn from PASSIONATE, MOTIVATED TEACHERS. I'm CURIOUS & A STORYTELLER".
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๐ The ARTIST Carrollโข" refers to the distinctive portfolio of an American watercolorist who specialized in expressive watercolors. Given the moniker by Voce Forte (Dallas Opera), his portfolio highlights a diverse collection of luxurious storytelling art, initially driven by a death, in short bursts of creativity, with notable art including a portrait of head-bowed Four-star General Tommy Franks and a Holy Land series for a 400,000-member global non-profit's 75,000 top benefactors' 12-month loyalty calendar. The western arts capital, City of Santa Fe, NM commissioned a golf painting. Entrepreneur Blackie Gonzales, KCHF-TV, talked with Carroll on air for an hour, CBS ran a news anchor's interview in the Evening News for 14 days, United Artist Theaters showed his artwork in their theater pre-shows for one month ...
"My creative right-brain complements my analytical-left.
I paint on the corpus collosum. When I was 3, in 1954, a husband and wife, medical colleagues of my folks, died in a private plane crash. I collected pennies, nickels and dimes to help support their orphaned children. In 2013 city councilmen calculated I should expect $221(m) in income. I was busy giving and didn't realize I was learning how to receive ---
What a humbling lesson".
[SIDEBAR: Carroll sat in a Stockyards street taking pictures during the Courtright Shootout reenactment - The resulting watercolor painting is in a Nebraska cattleman's home. Carroll enjoys NCHA cutting & USTPA team penning from the seats at the Will Rogers in Fort Worth. Carroll watched New Jersey's Cowtown Rodeo on TV. Carroll was petted by a panther at the International Exotic Feline Sanctuary near Fort Worth, Texas.]
Many People Helped
"An interior decorator redecorated her office around 40+ of my originals and brought the bride of her #1 client to see the collection; Her friend bought my art!!! as did a PGA & Open champion's bride and a Big Pharma heiress and a booze king's daughter. Arts patron Mrs. 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 Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, Soviet/Russian Gorbachev and South American heads of state. A Quarter horse-loving petroleum heiress, married to a Hall of Fame cowboy and NFL player paid my way to study under Sr. Alcaraz in Europe with the proviso that she got the first dibs when I returned to DFW - Ebby Halliday introduced me to Mary Kay Ash, two weeks before Mary Kay had a crippling stroke and keynoted at Dallas Convention Center to her 40,000 sales representatives. Go figure, I did not take a graduate school entrance exam, BUT I left a Master's program (Entomology at UGA), a Doctoral program (Ecology at DE), and two MBA programs in Texas with class leading A's. (The 2nd was at the University of Texas-Dallas, UT-D) I enjoy grazing in research libraries! I gave over 500 keynotes in the first year when I returned to Dallas, Texas from Castilian Spain.
A Colonial Brazilian heiress arranged my painting studies with the famed European, Don Francisco Alcaraz, prodigy artist.
I am a Rotary International
Paul Harris Fellow and received
a Sigma Xi research stipend for
my undergrad Honor's Thesis.
Toastmaster Pauline Shirley, DTM, PDG in the world #1-ranked district, and later a HOF PIP had coached me - I tossed a salutary note from George H.W. Bush, the White House, Washington, D.C. - right after I was named 'Rookie of the Year'.
The Dumpster Went "K-Thud"
"I tossed handwritten letters from Former First Lady Nancy Reagan and Delores Hope, wife of Bob Hope, and developer Trammel Crow of Highland Park, TX (First owned by Philadelphia investors), an invitation to Gen Westmoreland's wedding anniversary, lots of sport trophies and 91 Toastmasters blue ribbons won in 1ยฝ years, certificates, 400 of my watercolor paintings and 85,000 color photograph slides - They were all in my way.
โ YOU SPOT A "CARROLL" ON SIGHT
"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.
"He First Served as a Private."
The original painting is displayed at the Leadership Institute and Museum. It was unveiled by GTF on the steps of the Institute in front of 750 Patriot Guard Riders on Memorial Day at the Celebration of Freedom. The Charlie Daniels Band gave a concert opened by HOF and CGMA recipient, singer-songwriter, guitarist Jim Whitaker who performed with Willie and other household name artists.
Jimmy called me his 'Little brother'.
"I keynoted at American Association of University Women at Southern Methodist University in University Park. 48 hours later I got a phone call from Mr. Perot's personal philanthropy consultant".
"I gave my artwork to children's hospitals, adoption, children's advocacy, CASA, education, ... Dallas Theological Seminary, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Presbyterian Church of Park Cities women's ministry, McKinney's Christ Fellowship, interdenominational churches, Plano International Preschool, Nolan HS in Fort Worth, ... American Red Cross, American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, LLS, ...
"I didn't keep track of 50+ news features, 500+ keynotes my first year back in Texas, gave 5,000 S/N Arkansas prints to DFW hospital patients -
"Ron Anderson, MD, President & CEO, Parkland Hospital, called me into his office to tell me he wanted my art in every hospital room and corridor nationwide. Retired MG Hugh Robinson, USMA and MIT alum and BELO Corp trustee was my mentor, as were the Mayor of Plano a former USAF captain with his finger on four nuclear missiles and EDS founder, multibillionaire H. Ross Perot, Sr., a U.S. presidential candidate.
"Alcaraz spoke of three 'planos' of depth, but I paint 10 or 11 - That's what I see. He, Alcaraz, dabbled in a palette of pigments; Mine was the rare hues of shekinah glory, which don't exist on any palette - the wife of a multi-presidential appointee pointed that out. I enjoy seducing a stark white, blank sheet of watercolor cold press without instructions - See my last Prismacolor,
The Purple Thistles (Shown below).
As a kid, I built Revell models that way.
HIS DAD LOVED HARD WORK
"I grew up in the 1751 fieldstone mansion on the road from Valley Forge to Gen Washington's Continental Army hospital. My doctor dad had been a front page running back and 440 runner in high school (I ran a 4:08 mile and 8:56 2-mile on a 12-mile training run on a TAC certified course, a 31:57 10k for 22nd and a 1:17:17 among 4,000 runners in the 1st half of a marathon before an injury forced me walk to the finish line. I was a much better sprint cyclist on the banked track) and in the Third Tide on Dog Green, the deadliest beach on D-Day. I imagine he must've been cursed sprinting and triaging amidst moans and cries for help, and charred, smoldering bodies, sticky blood soaking his clothes and death filling his nostrils. He felt like a 'Stupid, worthless bastard' on the battlefield. Poppy deployed as chief medical officer on APD-78, USS Bull, in the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, two strategic Japanese islands. Pop was sought by Hall of Fame pro athletes, other doctors, the world's richest, and blue-collar workers. He was a humble man. 90 to 140 patients six days a week sat for 2 to 3 hours in his waiting room just to be seen by him.
Pop absolutely enjoyed what he termed,
'The fine art of medicine'.
The family that built the Brooklyn Bridge built a specialty hospital for him. We set up the first licensed equestrian center in Pennsylvania - An Olympic Gold Medalist was 1st headmaster - I mucked stalls, mended fences, built jumps, drove a big red Farmall, and a Massey Ferguson tractor mowing pastures - I drove all day from the time I was 8 y/o. My PBK mom daily took me to the Academy of Natural Sciences where I was a Junior Curator as a 5 y/o. Pop's office had stacks of JAMA, JAAD, Antiques, Tennis, Nature, Audubon, Outside, Scientific American, etc., etc. He volunteered at CVIM, did 100 pushups every morning and 'opened' the indoor tennis courts at 0530 until a fall resulted in death at 91. The man had no 'Go slow' switch and always raced Eau Rouge (The most dangerous corner in F1). He drove a souped up, little red sports car - And rolled two Tigers in Valley Forge - While thoughtfully smoking his hand carved, professorial Meerschaum pipe!
He was like a Four-star general.
"My dad demanded flawless excellence
AND expected immediate virtuosity.
He did all things First Class like GOATs Messi, Federer, Hamilton & MJ".
"Otra vez". "Again". (He repeated)
- Don Fco. "Paco" Alcaraz
Carroll's favorite film is Miracle (2004, produced by Mark Ciardi, et al. One mentor was Ciardi's Brewers pitcher sinker-slider teammate.) 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 prodigy artist Alcaraz.
The daily the temp soared from 4ยฐC overnight to 37ยฐC by midafternoon. Since, I moved to a cool, rainy, maritime clime.
"I see and paint what others don't.
I flow like running water".
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"Purple Thistles, my last Prismacolor drawing brought an IMMEDIATE invitation by Alcaraz. I CLEARED THE DECK AND Sold IT for $100 IN 1994".
"WATERCOLOR IS MY PASSION. I'm not out to prove anything. Watercolor #1, Spain 1994: The Blue Pocketknife, Day #1 with Don Fco. "Paco" ALcaraz.
Perfectly Loved, Carroll's last WC painting in Spain, taken at Creative Arts Center in Bonham, Texas. Photo by Allen Rich, NTXE-News, who wrote several articles about Carroll's studies.
"FEAR, DEATH & ANGER WERE MY MOTIVATION".
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