COACHING & CRITIQUING

Coaching is getting you to do what you don't want to do in order for
you to be able to do what you 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?
Need a mentor?
Need a coach?
Need an honest critique?
Robert Maniscalco offers professional, personalized coaching & critiquing services to those serious about a career as a fine artist or commission portrait artist.

Professional Coaching is an ongoing partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their awareness, improve their performance and enhance their career and quality of life. As your coach, Robert will:

Discover, clarify, and deepen what you want to achieve as an artist and as a business person.
Encourage and challenge you in self-discovery, developing your unique voice as an artist.
Help you to generate solutions and strategies that lead to balanced action.
Save a lot of wastefull trial and error
Challenge you to be responsible and accountable in your career.
Increase your bottom line

Benefits include:

Developing a meaningful artist's statement
Developing a practical, functional business plan, a blueprint for your career
Setting powerful, achievable long and short-term goals
Removing creative and professional blocks
Building a professional body of work
Developing a professional bio and resume (these should tell a story)
Getting into a gallery or finding a broker
Making your own opportunities
Achieving effective PR/promotion/name recognition in your market
Increase Sales and hone the marketing of your work
Provide inside tips on the fine art and/or commission portrait business
Share well researched information and models available by fax/email
Advancing your career as economically as possible

Fees:
$150 / month 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.

Detailed critiques available on-line (transmittal of work via email), by phone or in person.

Critiquing services includes:

Proactive written commentary/critique
Concrete assessment of formal elements
Discussion of developing a body of work
Assessment of the market 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 answer specific questions about the critique.

Please include an answer (there are no "right" answers) to the following question for each work or body of work you submit: "what am I trying to achieve/say with this work of art?

Fees:

$45 for first artwork
$25 for each additional artwork - limit three works.
$85 for a critique of a body of work (between 4-15 individual artworks related to one another in some way).