My Easel Art

When I was in high school, we had this terrible art teacher, who actually had to shave her face several times a week. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with a woman shaving her face, but she was just plain "mean." She announced on the first day of school:

"Listen and listen well! I want you to know I never learned to write an 'A,' and I seldom remember how to write a 'B'....

I was fifteen years old! I was afraid–as I think everyone was–to be creative. It wasn't till my mid-twenties that I went back to doing "easel art." At that time it was mostly painting. One of my favorite early pieces hangs in my living room. This one:

Despite this woman, I continued from then on to dabble in art. At first I did mostly paintings and drawings. The next one is very special to me in it is the only one in existence on which my wife and I collaborated.

In addition to paintings, I did charcoal drawings–such as this one, which, I think, was my very first.

Over the forty plus years since I drew this, the paper has gone from white to sepia.

Lately, most of my work is a combination of painting and collage on a single canvas. This is my very first attempt and dates from the 80s.

As with writing, I just can't stay with a single type of art but keep on experimenting.

[Marsh Casssady] ...expresses a wide range of feelings and sentiments in establishing his presence in these complicated times. He explores...with color, contrast [and] textures in a unique manner that presents us with his own personal vision of this corner of Baja California. –Roberto Rosique, artist, journalist, M.D., professor