by robert maniscalco | Oct 1, 2025 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View
I think of my paintings as a piece of archeology, not a snapshot in time, or another scrolling image. I don’t mean to artsplain, but a physical painting (not the image of the painting) literally contains the millions of choices made by an artist, in this case...
by robert maniscalco | Sep 29, 2025 | Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Theatre Related, World View
My goal as an artist is to understand humanity, to imagine and project myself into the world of my subjects. I am an empath. I want to know what they are thinking. How do they love? How do they cope with adversity? How do they wear their soul on their face? As our...
by robert maniscalco | Sep 14, 2025 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View
When you have something important to say, maybe a bit out of your wheelhouse, but not really, because what you’re talking about affects all of us, you better go ahead and say it. If we don’t wake up to the truth of what is happening in Washington, there...
by robert maniscalco | Sep 11, 2025 | Motivational, World View
“I think it’s worth [it] to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” Charlie Kirk The PerpeTRAITOR in Chief was testing the water when he blew up...
by robert maniscalco | Aug 15, 2025 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View
MOTION DENIED I was there every day of the hate trial of Dylann Roof, as sketch artist. I sat through the whole thing. He had every chance to defend himself. All he did offer was a strangely detached, yet spiteful “manifesto,” which incidentally reads like...
