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I'm a painter of abstract dreamscapes, mom, grandma, cat custodian, teacher of many and 💙🤚 💙 🫂💙🦋 the fight for democracy is not over. 🫂
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M A Cassidy
The Stairwell
8.5 x 5 in
The artwork is an abstract composition characterized by a blend of muted colors, predominantly shades of gray, brown, and soft white. Vertical and horizontal lines create a sense of structure within the composition, intersecting and layering over one another. There are sections of darker circular forms along the left edge and a larger dark shape toward the lower right, adding contrast and depth. The central area features lighter, diffused patches of white and gray, giving an impression of ethereal light or fog. The overall texture is rough and layered, enhancing a sense of depth and mystery in the piece.
July 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Ordered Chaos 2021
Tempera on vellum, 48x60"
This piece, Ordered Chaos, is a study in contrasts. Rough textures and layered shapes collide in muted blacks, whites, and beiges, interrupted by sharp touches of teal, red, and green. The white grids and dark smudges push and pull, creating movement within structure. It’s a reflection of urban tension — organized yet unpredictable.
June 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Student Testing 2018
Ink on paper, 12x9 ins
Rendered in black, white, and shades of gray, this ink on paper piece captures motion and mystery through a web of flowing lines and shifting forms. It was my job to monitor a student taking a test online. This was just an exercise of contour drawing where you follow the contours of a form.
June 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Self Portrait 2008
12x9 ins, ink on paper
Rendered in stark black, white, and shades of gray, this ink on paper piece captures motion and mystery through a web of flowing lines and shifting forms. The composition moves between smooth curves and sharp angles, creating a layered scene that feels both restless and introspective. Shapes emerge and dissolve—some suggest eyes or faces glimpsed in passing, others drift like abstract gestures across the surface. A rigid checkerboard pattern anchors the composition, offering a moment of order amidst the fluidity. The result is a quiet tension between structure and freedom that draws the viewer into a contemplative space.
June 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Still life in Altgeld Hall 1978
Charcoal on paper, 24x18
This is a charcoal drawing from my first semester at Northern Illinois University. Class was held in the old auditorium of Altgeld Hall. The class was held here because it was packed with miscellaneous old furniture, stage props, displays, you name it. The lighting was perfect. This charcoal drawing of mannequins/stage props covered in sheets tied up with sheeting. I loved drawing in that space.
June 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Sunday Afternoon in the Park Revisited 2025
Oil on canvas, 30"x36"
This abstract urban landscape utilizes a limited palette of cerulean blue and Windsor green against an achromatic background. Achromatic rectangular shapes and bold verticals evoke the city skyline, while organic dark lines in the foreground represent trees. The middle ground remains ambiguous, open to interpretation.
June 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Sunday Afternoon at the Park 2025
30" x 36", Oil on canvas
#oilpainting
#abstractart #Urbanlandscapes
#cityscapes
This is an abstract urban landscape. The thick vertical lines in the background suggest a city skyline. Foreground is occupied by more organic lines may be trees. And, in between, are ambiguous shadows open for interpretation. A limited palette of cerulean blue splashes and Windsor green lines against an achromatic background.
June 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Homage to Casper David Friedrich, Artist by the Lake 2025
Oil on canvas 22 x 72 ins
#oilpaint #seascapes #traditionalart #fineart
This oil painting depicts a seascape; a vast blue sky with delicate, windswept clouds overlooks sunlit sand. Beyond the sandy shore, waves roll onto the water's edge, where a solitary figure meets the sky the water in the sand.
May 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Spring Mosaic 2025
Oil on canvas 48"x 36"
#oilpainting #abstractart
Abstract oil painting, 48x 36, of trees in an urban landscape. The surface of the canvas is covered with rectangles they give the feel of windowed buildings. Unifying colors are blue and green.
May 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Moonlit Shadows 2025
Oil on canvas 48 x 36
Abstracted moonlit urban landscape. Unifying color is blue.
April 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Airwaves 2025
Oil on canvas 48" x 36"
This is an abstract painting about space. Within the shallow space of the painting, we have the purely abstract background of various shades of blue and bluegreen. The middle ground hovers above; it is a loose depiction of a beach-scape and hovers in front of the background. In the foreground, across the surface, are curvy bluegreen horizontal lines . These horizontal “airwaves” float over the entire surface. Some suggest floating out into the viewer's space, but others drift into the background. This play of space, color and value, creates tension for the viewer. The beach scape, while it floats, will never leave the surface of the painting. Even though it floats it is held close to the surface by the airwaves. The colors and image of this painting are not joyful. They are limited, ominous, and foreboding. The curvy horizontal lines that drift between the spaces of the painting are stagnant and drift uniformly.
April 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Rocky Red Morning 2025
Oil on canvas 48" x 60"
Abstract oil painting suggesting rough water, above the horizon you can see a hint of blue sky behind the pink glow of a red and windy morning. Fish sit at The bottom in the foreground.
March 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Spring Woods 2025
Oil on canvas, 59"x50"
This painting is an abstraction of a woodland forest, dark lines suggest trees against a lush yellow green.
March 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Time of Unrest, 2025
Oil on canvas 40"x60"
Abstract stage-like setting, two opposing linear figures take center stage against a fiery red background.
March 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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A loose painterly abstraction of a cold and cloudy morning in Baltimore. Muted greens and splashes of white give a feeling of cold cement with piles of slushy snow floating by.
March 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Winter Lake Birds 2025
Oil on canvas, 48" x 36"
The ice on the lake is melting under a gray blue-green sky with 3 birds on the right, perched in anticipation.
March 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Blue Sky
Blue Sky above West Michigan Lakeshore.
January 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Smidge 😻
November 16, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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These are my yardbirds, they visit 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
November 10, 2024 at 1:55 PM