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Jeff Crabill Art Art. The gift no one expects. Award winning artist! Very talented! Sense of humor! Be that with canvas, or by painting right on 'em!

As it says above, I am willing to travel to paint something of great beauty on your walls.

🎢 Three little maids from school are we, filled to the brim with ghoulish glee 🎢
10/15/2026

🎢 Three little maids from school are we, filled to the brim with ghoulish glee 🎢

We have a sidelight window and every now and then I'll make a holiday-themed design to block our view πŸŽƒThis is Michael M...
10/13/2026

We have a sidelight window and every now and then I'll make a holiday-themed design to block our view πŸŽƒ
This is Michael Myers from the first Halloween, known in the script as 'The Shape'. I found a really crappy brush and used that, along with a very limited palette, to give him that spooky vibe πŸŽƒ

"There are far worse things awaiting man than death." πŸŽƒBΓ©la Ferenc DezsΕ‘ BlaskΓ³ (Bela Lugosi to you and me) acted on sta...
10/10/2026

"There are far worse things awaiting man than death." πŸŽƒ

BΓ©la Ferenc DezsΕ‘ BlaskΓ³ (Bela Lugosi to you and me) acted on stage and in silent movies in Hungary until WWI when he served in the Hungarian army, he later immigrated to Germany and then the US after he backed the wrong side in the Hungarian Revolution πŸŽƒ
His misguided loyalty was an unexpected blessing, because it led him to the New York stage to play Count Dracula, and then to Hollywood for the same role πŸŽƒ
So anyway, I was looking for pictures of Mr. Lugosi and came upon one of him from his Hungarian stage days, and it made me wonder how a young Bela Lugosi would look as a young Vlad The Impaler πŸŽƒ
It's been a few years since I painted this but I can remember not wanting to use too much red....you can see how well that worked out πŸŽƒ

Vlad The Impaler
Watercolor on Strathmore
5"x 7"
October 2020

🎢 this is Halloween 🎢This Halloween mash-up is brought to you by many things: Tim Burton’s the Nightmare Before Christma...
10/09/2026

🎢 this is Halloween 🎢

This Halloween mash-up is brought to you by many things: Tim Burton’s the Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow (also a Tim Burton production), also Platoon with a zombie vibe, the fact that this is kind of where they landed when I tossed them down from the attic (figuratively not literally), and lastly because the zombies don't really have legs below the cargo pockets just boards to give them height) and Jack Skellington covered it up pretty well πŸŽƒ
There's more exposition with the photos if you'd like to be exposed πŸŽƒ

"The whole world is my hiding place!"Ah, October; the month of scariness and silliness πŸŽƒSo be prepared for both in the e...
10/07/2026

"The whole world is my hiding place!"
Ah, October; the month of scariness and silliness πŸŽƒ
So be prepared for both in the ensuing days, because this is Halloween(ish), and I've got plenty of ghosts, ghouls, and scary stuff to show you, so stick around, I dare ya πŸ‘»

A long time ago....wait, that's the other end of the alley πŸ˜‰It HAS been a long time, 6 years in fact, since i started th...
09/26/2026

A long time ago....wait, that's the other end of the alley πŸ˜‰
It HAS been a long time, 6 years in fact, since i started the slapping of paint on Brickell Alley (in my defense I did paint an entire 20'x 60' mural at the Holgate Community Library during that period); it's been fun and thematically it's pretty ME, if you know what I mean, not only with the bright colors and the movie and rock stars and the flashy vehicles, but I'm sure bits of my DNA are in there too 😁
If you like movies like I like movies then you know the movie Back to the Future, and when we started this hodgepodge of music and movies (and a tribute to artist Robert LaDuke) I knew I wanted to paint a very large bronze statue of Chuck Berry, and since I love movies I figured why not put a duck-walking Marty Mcfly in front of the original duck-walker himself? πŸ™ƒ
With Marty finished I think it's time to put 'closed for the season' on the theater marquee...wait, that's at the other end of the alley 😎

Hello and welcome to another 'what came next in that awesome mural at the Holgate Community Library' (that's a working t...
09/20/2026

Hello and welcome to another 'what came next in that awesome mural at the Holgate Community Library' (that's a working title) 😁
Putting this mural together was very much a collaborative endeavor, that being said I was given a ridiculous amount of freedom to experiment, and if it worked it went on the wall πŸ˜‰
This is one of those pieces, it's a shelf for the Holgate Lumber Company, which has been in business for 50+ years. I knew I wanted a toy wood truck designed to look like the truck in the photo (which is still in use), and I knew that the background was going to be brown (as it's a wooden bookcase made of paint), and that was a lot of brown, so putting a B&W photo in the mix sounded pretty boring, instead I colored it up real good, and that's part of the ridiculous amount of freedom of which I spoke earlier πŸ™‚
There's more in the photo comment sections if you'd like to read more 😎

I've been hanging out with Marty McFly in Brickell Alley the past week or so and have been remiss in my 'what got paint...
09/10/2026

I've been hanging out with Marty McFly in Brickell Alley the past week or so and have been remiss in my 'what got painted next at Holgate Community Library?' series, so I will try try rectify that remission now...you know what I mean πŸ˜‰
The first photo is a high-resolution scan of what seems to be a group picture of the Village of Holgate at about the turn of the 20th century; as someone who's studied this picture CLOSELY it looks like there was a photo session scheduled, and since there isn't a car in sight I'm guessing you didn't just call the local Sears to make an appointment, at that time period in this part of the country cameras were probably hard to find, and since the majority of the crowd have umbrellas and there are puddles in the street I get the feeling it was a 'this day rain or shine' kind of thing 😎

I'm not going to lie, painting something this complicated at this size while fifteen feet in the air (in the swampy NW Ohio summer and on this brick) was kind of grueling, really; the intermittent pics of bookcase were when I took extended breaks to focus on something that didnt require so MUCH focus, but still needed done 😁
Anyhow, it's done now for all to enjoy, so please enjoy πŸ™ƒ

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1792 Ginter Road
Defiance, OH
43512

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