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Booksigning: Robert Maniscalco’s The Power of Positive Painting
December 4, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Join us on December 4th for a fun signing with Robert Maniscalco and his recent release, The Power of Positive Painting: A Positive, Value-based System of Drawing and Painting.
The perfect gift for the artist or aspiring artist in your life, readers will learn the secrets of the masters, to draw and paint what they see; how to interpret the visual realm by distilling the essences of form; to create works of art that seem to be living and breathing.
Put Robert’s forty years as a professional artist and teacher to work for you!
Robert Maniscalco has been a professional creative his entire adult life. Born in 1959 in Detroit, he has lived in New York, New Orleans and currently in Charleston. His commission portraits and fine art are part of over a thousand collections throughout North America. In Detroit he hosted Artbeat on PBS and founded the Maniscalco Gallery. As a fine artist, he likes to work in multiple series. Perhaps his most enduring series is that of a commission portrait artist, immortalizing Supreme Court Justices as well as children and families. In 2014 Robert took on a vision-quest, called The Quench Project, in which he traveled to Haiti, producing numerous paintings, a documentary short (Out of Darkness), along with a companion book (Quench), juxtaposing the Haitian struggle with obtaining fresh water against our society’s obscene wealth inequality.
Robert blogs on a wide range of subjects and written three other books, The Fishly and Point of Art. His fourth book, an Amazon #1 bestseller, is a full color drawing/painting method, called The Power of Positive Painting. He is an actor/director, writer/playwright, musician/composer and teacher, a former Adjunct Professor of fine art and theatre at Charleston Southern University and drawing illustration at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.
Robert has expanded his creative milieu to include courtroom sketching, covering the Dylann Roof and Michael Slager trials in Charleston. His multi-disciplinary play, Vincent John Doe, received its world premiere to rave reviews, during the 2018 and 2019 Piccolo Spoleto Festivals.