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
I remember moving to Andover high school in my sophomore year, on the other side of town. I found myself sitting alone every day at the cafeteria table during lunch. I had enjoyed a certain popularity in my previous school. At least I was well known by my friends, who...
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...
by robert maniscalco | Aug 7, 2025 | Motivational, Theatre Related, World View
Come to the Cabaret I am excited and looking forward to Footlight Theatre’s production of Cabaret, which takes place in 1929 Germany, where people were split politically and grappling with the same issues we are facing right now. I see it as a cautionary tale....