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Essential Still Life

by [email protected] | Aug 19, 2021 | Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture

What is an Essential Still Life? View Custom Still Lives Robert has Done for Others In addition to my oil portraits I can create a very personal still life, perhaps celebrating a bride’s wedding, or other monumental event, with an “essential still life” remembering...

Seeing What We Want to See

by [email protected] | May 17, 2021 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

Inattentional Blindness – Falling for the Trick We’ve all seen them on the internet. I’m talking about those amazing chalk drawings on sidewalks that look 3-D. Or those optical illusions that make things appear differently than they really are. These...

Drawing vs Copying

by [email protected] | May 12, 2021 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture

Looking Deeper I sometimes comment in FB groups, offering my humble critique, when asked. Here’s what I offered for this drawing on the left. Honestly, there is a huge difference between drawing and copying a photo. So much of what I see in this group is copying....

The Power of Positive Painting Story

by [email protected] | May 5, 2021 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

People thought I was crazy trying to create a system that would make drawing and painting available to anyone who applied themselves, what I call the “democritization” of art. That was the goal, to distil the processes of master realists and combine them...

The P3 Movement

by [email protected] | Mar 6, 2021 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View

Guilty, as charged! But fortunately #forgiveness awaits, with the #purchase of @ThePowerofPositivePainting. #Learn to #draw and #paint. As a frequent art competition juror in the 1990s and 2000s, I noticed roughly over 80% of the representational entrants at local art...

What People are Saying About The P3

by [email protected] | 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...

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