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Private Lessons Are the Way

by [email protected] | 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 [email protected] | 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...

Portrait Demo Via Zoom

by [email protected] | Oct 21, 2020 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Portraiture

Zooming Right Along Last evening was a grand experiment. The Charleston Artist Guild presented a zoom portrait demo. It was an interesting experience for me. I have come to enjoy the interplay between the people, all gathered in a room together. I derive energy from...

mARTtyrs

by [email protected] | Sep 26, 2020 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View

People are Starved for Meaning Like the Fishfly, which are born to be consumed by fish, artists are born to be consumed by humanity. I’m talking about being consumed as in nurturing the consumer. Artists provide meaning to actual people, not some idea of people...

Online Painting Instruction

by [email protected] | Aug 12, 2020 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational

Online Painting Instruction and Virtual Learning Robert has created a series of live streaming videos available to rent or purchase. There is lots of free content, as well as paid, on subjects ranging from drawing what you see, releasing your creative genius to...

Learning Can Be Painful – Part One

by [email protected] | Aug 3, 2020 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Random Favorites, Theatre Related, World View

Here is my response to a fascinating blog about my Alma Matter/professional acting school, Circle in the Square. Much of what we learned at Circle was about neutralization, where the goal is to find our neutral, so we might then add or take away any color, behavior,...

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