Class and Workshop Schedule
POWER OF POSITIVE PAINTING
MASTER CLASS IN
DRAWING AND PAINTING
Small Group Classes (3-5 people)
TBA Classes to resume in 2023
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
REGISTER Contact Robert for more info.
Based on the Power of Positive Painting© method, with Robert Maniscalco: Robert will teach you to think like a painter. He presents a short drawing/painting lesson at the beginning of each session. Students may work in any medium and subject. Rob will provide/suggest reference material as necessary. We will set goals together and tailor the work to the individual needs of the student. Goals can be as broad as mastering an idiom like portraiture or landscape. Or they can be as specific as learning to develop a greater variety of edges in oil painting. Honest observation will be the key. The instruction will be tailored to allow for a deepening of the individual’s unique approach and response to the project at hand. Expect lots of individual attention here. These small group classes will be at the artist’s studio at 5440 Ansley Trail, North Charleston 29418.
Power of Positive Painting Workshop – 4 Weekly Small Group Classes
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Portrait Painting Demo at
Three Cities Art Club
October 3, 2022 @ 6 PM
223 S Main Street, Plymouth, MI
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Register for the
PPP Portrait Painting Workshop at the
Village Arts Factory (VAV)
October 7-9 (10-4:30), 2022
50755 Cherry Hill Rd, Canton, MI
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PPP Portrait Painting Workshop in
Chapin, SC (TBA)
October 14-15
The two day portrait painting intensive workshop we will explore value-based “light on form” painting methods to create high integrity, expressive portraits. Using live models, the focus will be on gaining a deeper understanding of observable values to achieve form, character and likeness. We will paint one finished portrait in our two days together. Robert will also present a few salient drawing and painting exercises in the morning sessions. . Materials List
Bravura Painting FREE Demo
on Facebook Live or in Person
at Art on the Square Gallery
420 Nexton Drive, Summerville SC
TBA, 2022
1-3 pm
Robert will demonstrate a basic oil painting of a landscape or still life using his value based alla prima technique. He will start and finish a still life or landscape during the 2 hours. Learn something new about drawing and painting accurately, what you see, with brilliant color with bravado brush technique.
PORTRAIT PAINTING FROM A LIVE MODEL
Small Group Classes (3-5 people)
TBA Classes beginning in 2023
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
REGISTER Contact Robert for more info
In addition to the P3 Workshop and weekly masterclasses in drawing and painting, Robert occasionally offers small, ongoing portrait painting classes. $135/4 week sessions, plus model’s fee (about $30-40 depending on number of participants). Check with Robert to let him know you are interested in taking this course. If he has enough interested in a portrait-only class, he will set one up. Portrait Painting Workshop Description: In these sessions we will explore value-based “light on form” painting methods to create expressive, professional level portraits. We will paint three finished portraits in our four sessions together. Robert will also present a few salient drawing and painting exercises in the beginning of each class. Using live models, the focus will be on gaining a deeper understanding of observable values to achieve form, character and likeness.
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“Emergence” is a painting about what happens when you finally stop hovering at the edge of your own life and step all the way in. In the piece, the figure is submerged in water, with the outside world slipping softly out of focus. There’s no safe distance here—only the quiet courage of surrender. The boundaries between self and environment begin to blur, inviting you to feel rather than analyze, to inhabit the moment rather than stand outside it.
This work is for the person who is done skimming the surface—someone who has felt the cost of distraction and now longs to be fully present with what matters: their relationships, their calling, their healing, their creativity. Hung in a space where you read, reflect, or simply breathe, “Immersion” becomes a visual nudge back to your own depth: a reminder that life doesn’t happen at the shoreline. It happens when you let yourself go under.
It will be part of my exhibition, "Identity and Self" at Park Circle Gallery opening April 3, 5-7 pm, running through April. ... See MoreSee Less
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Exhibition Opening April 3, 5-7pm
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“Weathered Wisdom” is a portrait of a man that has earned every line.
In warm earth tones and expressive brushwork, this painting captures an elderly man whose gaze carries decades of work, loss, laughter, and quiet resilience. The textures of his beard, the worn brim of his hat, and the deep-set eyes invite the viewer to imagine the life behind them.
Ideal for a #collector who value #character, heritage, and #authenticity, this piece brings a grounded, #human presence into any room—like having an old friend or a trusted elder watching over the space. ... See MoreSee Less
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“The Handoff” captures the exact moment when one generation places the fragile world into the hands of the next. Suspended in a cosmic cloud of light and stardust, the small Earth glows between older, protective hands and younger, open palms.
“The Handoff” will be featured in my exhibition at Park Circle Gallery, opening Good Friday 5-7 pm. Thru April.
Two sets of #hands reach toward a small, luminous Earth, held tenderly against a swirling #cosmos. The older hands cradle the #planet with care; the younger hands open to receive it. Between them hangs a silent question: What are we really passing on?
“The Handoff” is a #meditation on stewardship across generations—the moment when responsibility for our fragile world shifts from those who have carried it to those who will shape what comes next. It’s a piece for anyone who feels both the weight and the hope of that exchange: parents, teachers, mentors, spiritual leaders, and quiet guardians of the future.
Hung in a living room, office, or gathering space, this painting becomes a daily reminder to live—and lead—with the next generation in mind.
It’s a painting about trust, responsibility, and the quiet courage it takes to let go—and to receive. It asks: What are we really giving to those who follow us? A burden? A blessing? A chance to do better? In this suspended second, everything is still possible.
"The Handoff" is for people who feel they’re standing between generations—parents, teachers, mentors, spiritual leaders, even environmental advocates—anyone who feels the weight of what we’re handing to those coming after us. It’s a visual reminder that the Earth, and the future, are something we pass on, not just something we use. ... See MoreSee Less