Robert Casilla is an accomplished illustrator known for creating rich color and warm tones in his realistic painterly illustrations. Casilla works in watercolors and pastels on 3 ply bristol board.

Casilla has worked with a wide variety of clients from magazines, postage stamps, children's books, small books and textbooks.

Robert Casilla, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He works from his studio at his home in Yonkers, New York where he lives with wife Carmen, son Robert Jr. and daughter Emily.

Mr. Casilla an artist/illustrator of Hispanic background has illustrated many multicultural children's books such as THE LITTLE PAINTER OF SABANA GRANDE, JALAPENO BAGELS and THE LEGEND OF MEXICATL, CON MI HERMANO/WITH MY BROTHER. He has also illustrated a number of biographies, including ones about Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens and Simon Bolivar.