Class and Workshop Schedule
POWER OF POSITIVE PAINTING
MASTER CLASS IN
DRAWING AND PAINTING
Small Group Classes (3-5 people)
TBA Classes to resume in 2023
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
REGISTER Contact Robert for more info.
Based on the Power of Positive Painting© method, with Robert Maniscalco: Robert will teach you to think like a painter. He presents a short drawing/painting lesson at the beginning of each session. Students may work in any medium and subject. Rob will provide/suggest reference material as necessary. We will set goals together and tailor the work to the individual needs of the student. Goals can be as broad as mastering an idiom like portraiture or landscape. Or they can be as specific as learning to develop a greater variety of edges in oil painting. Honest observation will be the key. The instruction will be tailored to allow for a deepening of the individual’s unique approach and response to the project at hand. Expect lots of individual attention here. These small group classes will be at the artist’s studio at 5440 Ansley Trail, North Charleston 29418.
Power of Positive Painting Workshop – 4 Weekly Small Group Classes
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Portrait Painting Demo at
Three Cities Art Club
October 3, 2022 @ 6 PM
223 S Main Street, Plymouth, MI
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Register for the
PPP Portrait Painting Workshop at the
Village Arts Factory (VAV)
October 7-9 (10-4:30), 2022
50755 Cherry Hill Rd, Canton, MI
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PPP Portrait Painting Workshop in
Chapin, SC (TBA)
October 14-15
The two day portrait painting intensive workshop we will explore value-based “light on form” painting methods to create high integrity, expressive portraits. Using live models, the focus will be on gaining a deeper understanding of observable values to achieve form, character and likeness. We will paint one finished portrait in our two days together. Robert will also present a few salient drawing and painting exercises in the morning sessions. . Materials List
Bravura Painting FREE Demo
on Facebook Live or in Person
at Art on the Square Gallery
420 Nexton Drive, Summerville SC
TBA, 2022
1-3 pm
Robert will demonstrate a basic oil painting of a landscape or still life using his value based alla prima technique. He will start and finish a still life or landscape during the 2 hours. Learn something new about drawing and painting accurately, what you see, with brilliant color with bravado brush technique.
PORTRAIT PAINTING FROM A LIVE MODEL
Small Group Classes (3-5 people)
TBA Classes beginning in 2023
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
REGISTER Contact Robert for more info
In addition to the P3 Workshop and weekly masterclasses in drawing and painting, Robert occasionally offers small, ongoing portrait painting classes. $135/4 week sessions, plus model’s fee (about $30-40 depending on number of participants). Check with Robert to let him know you are interested in taking this course. If he has enough interested in a portrait-only class, he will set one up. Portrait Painting Workshop Description: In these sessions we will explore value-based “light on form” painting methods to create expressive, professional level portraits. We will paint three finished portraits in our four sessions together. Robert will also present a few salient drawing and painting exercises in the beginning of each class. Using live models, the focus will be on gaining a deeper understanding of observable values to achieve form, character and likeness.
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“The Handoff” captures the exact moment when one generation places the fragile world into the hands of the next. Suspended in a cosmic cloud of light and stardust, the small Earth glows between older, protective hands and younger, open palms.
“The Handoff” will be featured in my exhibition at Park Circle Gallery, opening Good Friday 5-7 pm. Thru April.
Two sets of #hands reach toward a small, luminous Earth, held tenderly against a swirling #cosmos. The older hands cradle the #planet with care; the younger hands open to receive it. Between them hangs a silent question: What are we really passing on?
“The Handoff” is a #meditation on stewardship across generations—the moment when responsibility for our fragile world shifts from those who have carried it to those who will shape what comes next. It’s a piece for anyone who feels both the weight and the hope of that exchange: parents, teachers, mentors, spiritual leaders, and quiet guardians of the future.
Hung in a living room, office, or gathering space, this painting becomes a daily reminder to live—and lead—with the next generation in mind.
It’s a painting about trust, responsibility, and the quiet courage it takes to let go—and to receive. It asks: What are we really giving to those who follow us? A burden? A blessing? A chance to do better? In this suspended second, everything is still possible.
"The Handoff" is for people who feel they’re standing between generations—parents, teachers, mentors, spiritual leaders, even environmental advocates—anyone who feels the weight of what we’re handing to those coming after us. It’s a visual reminder that the Earth, and the future, are something we pass on, not just something we use. ... See MoreSee Less
The figures in "A Walk in the Park" are the inner cast you carry everywhere—the fool who leaps, the doubter who drags his feet, the dreamer who stares past the horizon, the judge with crossed arms, the child who still believes. They bicker, whisper, revolt and reconcile, but together they make the one you call “I.” We are all onstage at once, caught in the thin light between meaning and emptiness—a reminder that your chaos is not a flaw, but the chorus through which your true voice finally emerges. ... See MoreSee Less
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Opening Reception and Exhibition at
Park Circle Art Gallery
4820 Jenkins Ave.
North Charleston, SC 29405
The Exhibition runs through April 26
Gallery Hours: W-F 10:30-5:30, Sat 12-4
The collection will center on how identity interferes with our true self, our true freedom, which is a central value for an artist, as well as any self-actualized individual. For instance, when I draw my idea of a thing, rather than opening myself up to the full potential contained in the thing itself, I am limiting my creative potential.
So, who are we at our core, after we strip away the names we call ourselves, the parties with whom we affiliate, the causes for which we are fighting? After all, these are all inventions of the ego, which separate us from God and the infinite. Existence consists of light on form. Light is my medium as an artist. I am a painter of the self. I am looking always for something deeper than the surface representations in my subjects. It is the true self I am looking for when I paint, whether it is an orange, a sky or a judge. ... See MoreSee Less
“The Fantasy” oil on canvas 36" x 48", invites you into that lucid dream space where imagination feels more vivid than reality. In this oil painting, a solitary figure drifts through a dreamlike landscape of softened edges and impossible light. But the story is not fixed—you’re handed a doorway.
This piece lives in the uncertainty between escape and awakening. At first glance, it feels like a beautiful dream: rich color, fluid forms, and a sense of effortless drift. But stay with it, and you begin to notice the undercurrent—a quiet question about what we run toward, and what we’re trying to leave behind.
For the thoughtful collector, “The Fantasy” becomes a mirror for their own inner world. It speaks to anyone who has ever built a private refuge in their mind: the daydreamer, the creative, the survivor, the seeker who knows that fantasies can be both sanctuary and trap. The painting doesn’t judge that impulse; it honors it, and gently asks what new possibilities might emerge when we begin to bring those inner visions into the light of our real lives.
Hung in a living room, bedroom, or reading space, “The Fantasy” doesn’t just decorate a wall—it opens a conversation. With its layered symbolism and emotional depth, it’s the kind of work people return to, again and again, discovering new details and meanings as their own story evolves. ... See MoreSee Less
"Three Little Buds" is a framed #oilpainting looking for a new home. “Three Little Buds” captures a tender moment of becoming: three rosebuds held in that brief, luminous stage before they open. The dew on their petals hints at fresh beginnings and quiet resilience after the rain. This piece speaks to anyone who feels on the edge of a new chapter—honoring both the vulnerability and the promise of what is about to bloom.
“Three Little Buds" is about beginnings and the quiet power of what hasn’t fully unfolded yet. I painted them at that in-between moment—still closed, but clearly full of life and color, with the dew clinging to them after a fresh start.
For me, the three buds might suggest three children / three important relationships / three versions of ourselves at different times, held together in the same space of light and nurtured by potential energy. The droplets are a reminder that renewal often comes right after the storm; there’s a softness and resilience there.
It’s a painting for someone who connects with the idea of growth, protection, and the beauty of what’s just about to bloom or has bloomed in their own life. ... See MoreSee Less