Jeff Crabill Art

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.

Hello 🙂I've been around for a while, and as I've been around I've picked up a lot of stuff; I recently rearranged the ma...
06/07/2026

Hello 🙂
I've been around for a while, and as I've been around I've picked up a lot of stuff; I recently rearranged the many keepsakes and collectables I have of various genres and have been giving aesthetically pleasing (I hope) online picture tours of various shelves around my studio filled with cool toys 😉
As cool as some of my toys are, they just won't all fit on the very shelves I've just described, so this tour is kind of a 'cool but stuck on the floor' event 😎

It's alley time again 😎Hello from the bowels of Defiance, Ohio (actually the sunny sidewalks and brightly painted Bricke...
05/29/2026

It's alley time again 😎
Hello from the bowels of Defiance, Ohio (actually the sunny sidewalks and brightly painted Brickell Alley on Clinton Street, right downtown), where I've been putting paint on the wall to fill your dreary lives with some sunshine, as nature seems to want to drown us recently (that was a misquote from Jack Nicholson's Joker in the first Batman movie, I'm sure your lives are non-dreary without any input from me, but I'll help if I can) 😉
Its a cultural thing: if a person is of a certain age (born in this century, usually), they may not know late-70s car-chase police procedural movies like Bullitt, a classic movie starring the epitome of 70s cool Steve McQueen and the gorgeous Jacqueline Bisset, plus a range of solid character actors (and Robert Duvall), and that car chase up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco 😮
And now, Marty McFly from Back to the Future is going from black & white to color after a years as a placeholder; he certainly doesn't fit the image I left for him (although it has been a few years), but I'll make it fit 😎
Hope you have a good week and weekend, and if you're in downtown Defiance take a stroll through Brickell Alley, it's fun 😁

Although I try not to live in the past, I do have a nostalgic side, and this shelf is full of things that I've collected...
05/20/2026

Although I try not to live in the past, I do have a nostalgic side, and this shelf is full of things that I've collected or just held on to through the years, from books on sharks to books on Gilligan’s Island; and scripts from some of the plays/musicals I've been in through the decades, along with various bric-a-brac, baseballs and Snoopy 🙂
In case you're lost, I cleaned & rearranged my collectables recently and have been giving a visual tour, and this is my 'mementos of yesteryear' section; if you'd like to read more I'll be getting sentimental (but funny) in the captions, kind of like A Prairie Home Companion, but funny 😁

When I was five my grandma was watching us while our parents were in Acapulco on vacation, my siblings assured her that ...
05/13/2026

When I was five my grandma was watching us while our parents were in Acapulco on vacation, my siblings assured her that not only could we stay up late but it was okay to watch "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte", a gothic phycological horror movie with a catchy theme song (🎶 Hush Hush sweet Charlotte/chopped off his head and his hand 🎶) and the literal contents of that theme song: I remember a door opening to reveal a box with a severed hand as I watched from behind a pillow or maybe my grandma, plus a lady being pushed down a big staircase in black and white, and even though it scared the crap out of me I knew it wasn't real, but that and love of monster movies started me down a path of wanting to find out how these things were done, to that end I've read many books on the subject 😀
I've also collected many books, some of which appear in this watercolor still-life, titled 'Works Of Art III",the third of three paintings of art books (the first being fine art, the second comic-book art, the third being this) 🙂
The first picture is the whole picture, the rest is bits and pieces; you can look and also read more if you'd like, there are more words in the captions 😉

There's an alley in Defiance, Ohio that I like to hang out in, and that alley is Brickell Alley 😎I get there when I can,...
05/07/2026

There's an alley in Defiance, Ohio that I like to hang out in, and that alley is Brickell Alley 😎
I get there when I can, when it's not snowing or raining or the wind isn't trying to blow me into the middle of freaking Clinton Street, and put paint on the walls in (hopefully) recognizable images of stars, cars, and rock and roll icons, plus cool stuff that I think is cool 🙂
It's been a work, I tell ya; it's been interrupted by other murals but it's the one I always return to, although I hope at some point to be done for good; to that end I spent the few days it wasnt dreary painting the beginnings of a Steve McQueen Bullitt poster, the current state of which is at the end of the pictures 😉
As always there are captions with the pictures if you'd like to read more, because I like to talk 😄

"I used to rock and roll all nite and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I'm lucky if I can find one day ...
04/28/2026

"I used to rock and roll all nite and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I'm lucky if I can find one day a week in which to get funky." -Homer Simpson, lamenting his gradual domestication in 'Homerpoloozia' 😎
I love music, it's one of the greatest joys of my life, along with art and my family, and while I may not rock'n'roll all nite anymore I have enough records to do so if I wanted 😉
The first concert I saw was Styx at the Fort Wayne War Memorial Coliseum during their breakthrough 'Grand Illusion' tour, I picked up a Van Halen tour book during their Diver Down tour, it's pretty beat up, but it's the base for other R'n'R stuff I've collected through the years, and I'll share some small stories in the comment section, if you're interested 😁
The reason for all this exposition is because I've been showing the various collections in my studio, and this is the rock-and-roll portion of our program 😄

I like to rearrange my studio every now and then, when things get too dusty or I'm nearing the end of a project and need...
04/23/2026

I like to rearrange my studio every now and then, when things get too dusty or I'm nearing the end of a project and need something to totally distract me from actually finishing it 😶
I like stuff; weird stuff or fun stuff or just neat stuff, usually I put it in some semblance of collections, but last time I tried to put completely disparate things together, which is cool in theory or up close but as a theme 'disparate' doesn't come across as a theme 🙃
When I went on my previous cleaning spree I also rearranged the artwork on the walls so nothing in the same genre was touching as best I could, but as there are a lot of rock'n'roll portraits there's a little bit of overlap 😶
If you'd like a short description of these paintings please keep reading 😉

Although I tried to keep things separate some things just go together, like (from left to right) that little red picture is an ink drawing of Audrey II, star of Little Shop of Horrors, made for a flyer for the Hicksville Village Players 2005 production, as was the poster below it, designed and Photoshopped by me, and it came out pretty much as I'd envisioned it, kind of campy 50s horror, which is kind of what it is 🙂
Next is Eddie Van Halen from the cover of their debut album, next to Eddie is Morgan Freeman looking all Moorish in the movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Theives; the girl with the red hair is the blond-haired Ginger Grant from our production of Gilligan's Island: The Musical; next on the top is a small self-portrait of me as a Super Hero (from a challenge I accepted),beside that is a watercolor portrait of Ceasar (Roddy McDowell in full ape nakeup) from 'Conquest For The Planet of the Apes', below that is "80s Wax", a still-life of awesome 80s records and a cool Realistic turntable; up and over there's Bob Dylan from his Traveling Wilburys days, beside him is Shirley Manson from the band 'Garbage' (rock'n'rollers rubbing against each other), below that is a small drawing of the small Harry Potter, below him is a small portrait of a random Viet Nam soldier 😐

If you would like to know more about any of these pieces I'm sure I've posted about nearly all of them if you'd like to take the time, there's some pretty good stuff 😁

"Embrace the dark side (actually this is terrible advice, DO NOT embrace the dark side)." 😉However it does hold a certai...
04/18/2026

"Embrace the dark side (actually this is terrible advice, DO NOT embrace the dark side)." 😉
However it does hold a certain appeal, which people who want my money seem to be able exploit to their advantage, with their books and toys and scale models of their cool monster-movie stars 😁
They don't get all my money though, the Sculpy people get their share so I can make my own monsters 🙃
This is another small corner of my studio, a shelf of eerie odds and ends I've found or made over the years; if you'd like to hear more about them I'll be yammering on in the photo comments 😎

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away we will boldly go where I am Groot and ack! ack ack ack! 😄I'll translate that ...
04/14/2026

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away we will boldly go where I am Groot and ack! ack ack ack! 😄
I'll translate that roughly as 'of all the collectables (toys) in this room here's the sci-fi/fantasy portion of my universe' 😎
I once heard the difference between science fiction and science fantasy described like this: science fantasy is where the science is magic and science fiction is where the magic is science 🙂
There's more in the photo comments if you're interested, not sci-fi/fantasy comparisons or anything (maybe one more) 😉

Good morning 🙂I used to be a control-freak (paint-wise; as a human I'm pretty laid-back), and since I like to tiptoe out...
04/09/2026

Good morning 🙂
I used to be a control-freak (paint-wise; as a human I'm pretty laid-back), and since I like to tiptoe out of my comfort zone once in a while I decided to do some more...wet paintings, and I'm glad i did because it's a lot of fun and you can make some very cool stuff that way 😉
This is one of the first pieces I tried, and it's one of my favorites, a friend of a friend's photo on FB of a girl in a hoodie, I changed all the colors and slopped on some paint and here we are 🙃
And here's where the story takes a somewhat tragic turn: as I was finishing up piling on the red paint I must have been getting too loosey-goosey with the brush and dropped a big red gash right onto the poor girl's chin (red, am I right?) 😮
I scrubbed it out as best I could, to the point of tearing the surface of the paper, so you are looking at a digitally altered image, but as images go it's still pretty cool I think 😎

Red
Watercolor on Strathmore
5"x 7"

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