Private Lessons and Career Coaching
PRIVATE PAINTING LESSONS AND COACHING
IN THE CHARLESTON, SC AREA
Robert offers the following professional, personalized services:
Whether you are serious about a career as a gallery artist, a commission portrait artist, or a dedicated amateur, Robert will help you get deeper into your art. The first thing we will do is determine whether you are on a career track or not. It’s not about talent; we need to honestly assess how serious you are about realizing your artistic vision. If your goals and vision are aligned with each other, we can get started with private painting lessons to give you hands on teaching and guidance in various forms of painting. From custom oil portraits and landscapes to self-expression, the Maniscalco Gallery in Charleston, SC is here to help you on your path. Contact us today to learn more about our private painting lessons and art workshops or to schedule a consultation with Robert Maniscalco!
Launch
Whatever your goal, Robert will help you deal with the obstacles that stand in the way of you realizing them. There are many forms and paths to success, some that are difficult to see on our own. Let’s discover your path, our program will be tailored to your specific needs. Regular consulting with an encouraging mentor, even remotely, is essential for success. Robert will help you clarify your goals, encouraging you to design and implement a plan of action that holds you accountable to yourself. Robert has helped launch hundreds of successful careers. Let him help you launch yours!
Coaching is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, in order for them to be able to do what they want to do. —VINCE LOMBARDI
- Are you ready to make the leap from the sidelines to the playing field?
- Is it time to go from a dedicated amateur to the ranks of a professional artist?
- Is your career in a holding pattern?
- Do you need . . .
- a mentor?
- straight answers from someone with over 40 years in the business?
- some encouragement?
- a cheering section?
- someone in your court?
- an honest but compassionate critique?
- an outside eye on what is working and what isn’t?
Coaching
Robert views professional coaching as an ongoing partnership individuallly designed to produce fulfilling results in his clients’ personal and professional life. Through the process of coaching, you will deepen your awareness, improve your performance, move forward in your career and enhance your quality of life. As your coach, Robert will help you::
- Discover, clarify, and deepen your mission as an artist
- Establish a healthy balance between your career and your personal life.
- Encourage and challenge you in self-discovery, developing your unique voice as an artist.
- Help you to generate solutions and strategies that lead to effective action.
- Save a lot of wasteful trial and error
- Challenge you to be diligent, responsible and accountable in your career.
- Increase your quality of life.
What We Will Do Together
- Develop a meaningful artist’s vision and mission statement (one that will actually help you make the art you really want to be making!)
- Set powerful, achievable long and short-term goals
- Develop a practical, functional business plan, a blueprint for your career
- Help you confront creative and professional blocks
- Create and Build a professional body(s) of work
- Developing a professional bio, artist’s statement and resume which actually reflect your creative mission
- Discover the secrets of getting your work into a gallery or finding a broker
- Create your own opportunities
- Carve out your niche
- Help you define your market and demographics (buyers)
- Develop a distinct style and brand for your work
- Achieve effective PR/promotion/brand recognition in your market
- Increase Sales
- Balance commission and non-commission work
- Explore well researched information and business models that can work for you
Private Instruction vs Coaching
Robert offers private art instruction. You can purchase one session,, two session or four session packages. Robert will give you a crash course in his PPP Method along with professional self-assessment. He will tailor an instruction program, depending on your goals and needs. There is a natural overlap between instruction and coaching. All instruction includes some professional coaching. And all coaching packages include some instruction. For instance, if your professional goal includes creating a body of figurative work, he will help you deepen your figurative abilities. In a coaching-only scenario, Robert will make recommendations for further instruction. Using previous work and experience as a springboard we will craft an achievable future that will fire your inspiration. We will find the ways in which you can contribute to the world as an artist.
Coaching Only Fees
$225 / month coaching services includes an initial 1 hour consultation by phone or in person, followed by three (3) weekly thirty-minute phone consults over each month. Plus periodic reviews of homework via email. Click here for more information on Coaching Services.
Critiquing Services
Detailed critiques available on-line (transmittal of work via email), by phone or in person. Critiquing services includes:
- Proactive written critique on one or more of your artwork(s)
- Concrete assessment of formal structural elements of the presented work
- Proactive Career assessment based on the work presented
- Assessment of how a body(s) of work might be derived from individual work(s) presented
- Assessment of style or brand
- Assessment of the market demographics for the work and/or body of work
- Ideas for an artist’s statement based on the work itself
- All critiques include one follow-up email to address specific questions about the critique
Critiquing Service Fees
$65 for first artwork
$30 for each additional artwork – limit three works.
$95 for a critique of an entire body of work (between 4-15 individual artworks related to one another in some way).
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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
A special invite and great GIVEAWAY! The seventh person to PM me their email address will win a beautiful Lmt. Ed. Giclee. AND get your discount on all things ManiscalcoGallery.com.
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