Hue-based Society

by robert maniscalco | Mar 4, 2021 | Art Instruction, Motivational

We live in a hue-based society. Most artists have an unhealthy addiction to hue. Our obsession with color, specifically the hue of a color, undermines our ability to see form objectively. The Power of Positive Painting, my 157 page full color book, is an an effort to...

What People are Saying About The P3

by robert maniscalco | Mar 1, 2021 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational

I didn’t set out to write four books. I simply had something important to say and I found a way to say it. Here’s what People are Saying about my teaching and the book I could not be happier that my latest book, The Power of Positive Painting has received...

Press Release About the Power of Positive Painting

by robert maniscalco | Feb 15, 2021 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, World View

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2024 Contact: Robert Maniscalco, author [email protected] mobile: 313-689-2993 The Power of Positive Painting has become a #1 Amazon Bestseller! 0 Forty years in the making, author, artist, and gallerist Robert Maniscalco...

Forward from The Power of Positive Painting

by robert maniscalco | Jan 1, 2021 | Art Instruction, Motivational

Forward from “The Power of Positive Painting” A lot has changed in the art world in the forty plus years since I embarked on my career. Academia is finally embracing contemporary realism – realism that has something important to say about our world....

Private Lessons Are the Way

by robert maniscalco | Dec 29, 2020 | Art Instruction, Motivational, Portraiture

Virtual or In-person Private Lessons Covid19 has everybody making adjustments. As an artist, I am going about my business very differently than usual. The Pandemic is an interrupter to the art business, in a lot of ways. Fortunately, as a visual artist, a lot of my...

Form, Character and Likeness

by robert maniscalco | Dec 19, 2020 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational

Excerpt From “The Power of Positive Painting,” the Upcoming Color Book, by Robert Maniscalco Shedding Light on Values In the beginning, there was light. Long before Thomas Kinkaid turned “painter of light” into a ridiculous slogan, the masters knew of its...