Following the Cloud, about 22.5" x 32.5," 2011.

Rising Bar C cutting horse after a pelting rain crossed

the Blackland Prairie.

QUESTIONS. TEXT Carroll @ 214-799-3125 - DO NOT CALL

$8,205.13 per sq. in. EFT. (He doesn't answer his phone)

As appropriate, IRS Tax Exempt status letter. 


ANSWERS TO FAQs


"It is not what you gather in life, it's what you scatter in life

that tells the kind of life you have lived".

Helen Walton, wife of Sam Walton, co-founder of Walmart


"Elite competitive cycling and running made a huge difference.

I didn't go to Royal College of Art --- SCAD, SAIC or Rhode Island.

A Brazilian heiress, Helena Braga Pereira da Cunha, granddaughter of JosΓ© Agostinho Pereira da Cunha co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (CRF, soccer) whose life-sized statue adorns the front of the rowing/yachting soccer clubhouse, arranged my studies with Spaniard D. Fco. Alcaraz, artist to kings and queens, superstar actors and Hall of Fame pro athletes - France's Louvre, Spain's El Prado, NYC's Met, the Palace at Versailles, the private collection of Long Island's Walter Chrysler, Jr. Helena went to Paris to meet Alcaraz and followed him to Spain --- An Oklahoma oil heiress paid my way to Spain with a proviso she'd get the first pick after I returned to Texas - Back in the U.S.A.

 I gave 500+ keynotes in 12 months then got back to painting.

The news media showed up.


"Watercolor is fun, creative and messy. Once, in doing a Dallas Botanical Garden series, I rinsed my brush in my stem of Cabernet and impetuously strafed and splattered paintings with my toothbrush.

My Holy Land dozen, I tempestuously refined with coarse sandpaper.

I slap my thigh with a dripping paintbrush to set its water content.

 Methods untaught except by the moment, always with superb results.

OMG, sizing actually matters but lessened it's as good as gone.

(Sizing's discovery made lawyer's contracts possible)

Once I dabbed pigment all over my running shoes before speaking to a general assembly of 750 K thru 5s in Plano, Texas. A kid came up to me in the school's main lobby, looked down at my colorful shoes and said, "Cool mister". That was fun! Besides, I was paid $400 for half-an-hour.

Multiple times I spoke at a national bookstore chain and was invited to be in a National Writers Harvest. I recited in quite a few coffee shops.

My #1 place to speak was American Business Women's (ABWA).

My favorite gift was to Park Cities Presbyterian Women's Ministry (PCPC). I act now apologizing when I need to albeit that's rare.


"I did a Texas Rangers AA RoughRiders painting for the Texas Credit Union Association to benefit Children's Miracle Network.

I watched Pudge belt 3 homers in a 4th of July game! I'd seen Casey Stengel and the Yankees at a Phillies game. I watched the Cowboys beat Brett Favre and the Packers from the coaches' wives' suite

and then a Shania Twain concert from Stephen Jones' suite.

I did a Ft Worth high school fundraising piece for a PGA Tour Champion - His wife called me at 6AM to mirthfully say that at that moment he was rearranging their furniture around her surprise gift.


"One of my mentors was a Retired MG serving on the Board of Belo Corp. He was a USMA and M.I.T. graduate. Another was a sinker slider pitcher from the Milwaukee Brewers alongside Mark Ciardi (Miracle, The Rookie, The Underdog, Secretariat, ...). Another was EDS founder, the world's first billionaire, multibillionaire Ross Perot, Sr. of Dallas.


"Former USCENTCOM Commander, Four-star General Tommy Franks penned the foreword to my 1st book, Ode to Joy (OTJ). I attended General Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary along with 40 Medal of Honors and two Knight Commanders, Knights of Malta. 'Westie's' wife, Kitsy Westmoreland, corralled me for a picture.

The world's dean of neurosurgery hosted a lunch for me.

When I stop learning from something or someone

I move on to the next great adventure. 


"I pray that my watercolors enrich your life and bless many lives.

3 Jn 2".