As the Witch's New Year approaches I am enjoying the coolness, the pumpkins, the absolute sense of magick and anticipation in the crisp fall air as the dark time of the year approaches. I've been painting bats and witch hats and flying cats on broomsticks in preparation for upcoming art shows. Soon, I'll carve my pumpkin, celebrate my husband's birthday on the 30th and dress up at Samhain as the person I want to be in the coming year. I will start my year with a toast to my birth mother on the other side as I picture her always in a goddess-green dress enjoying the company of her beloved. I'll raise a toast to all the dear departed that are looking out for us as the veil thins. Wishing you all sweet dreams and blessings in the coming year.
Featured in the Halloween Collection
Hecate, 8x8 matted Original by Kathy Crabbe
54 Series
I painted 54 goddesses 54 days before turning 54 on Sept. 7, 2019. "We need the goddess because she breaks stereotypes of the feminine and thus frees women from the limitations of that stereotype. Women can be strong and beautiful, feminine and wise teachers, mothers and participants in culture...the goddess completes the image of the god and brings wholeness." (Rita M. Gross)
Bearberry Cat by Kathy Crabbe from the Cat Herbal Oracle Deck
Cat Herbals
Most of these watercolor paintings are from my 36-card Cat Herbal Oracle Deck. This deck and the artwork within will attune you to the healing, spiritual powers of the herbs and kitties. They were inspired by my feline friends and time spent in nature communing with the plant spirits and faeries of Southern California’s inland valleys..
Elfin Ally Oracle Deck Art
Inspired by Forest, Lake and Loon,
Fiery Heat, Coyote Calls, and Starry Nights
My Elfin Ally paintings are inspired by the wild creatures of my childhood home in Ontario, Canada in the Frontenac Arch Biosphere of Ontario, Canada, where five forest regions merge, creating a tremendous wildlife diversity and close to my childhood summer home, and my heart. It is located on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territories.
In my late 20’s I moved to California and now find inspiration in the desert wine region and elfin forests of Temecula on the traditional land of the Payómkawichum where I learned to appreciate the searing sun, Santa Ana winds, starry nights, and El Nino winters of a desert life.
In 2019 I published these paintings as the Elfin Ally Oracle Deck: a 72 card spirit animal deck with oracles and keywords on the back of each card along with a 62 page guidebook. We all need magickal tools to help us deal with this often crazy world. May this deck be one of yours.
Faerieality Mixed Media Paintings
The Faerieality Series is painted with gouache and watercolor on Montréal-made paper (the city of my conception). Each painting is inspired by an intuitively chosen section of a book that I felt had ‘faerie energy’. I also intuitively chose a few words to collage into each piece.
I work within the field of Spiritual Automatism. This is a method of art-making in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the making process, allowing the unconscious mind to have great sway. Early 20th-century Dadaists, such as Hans Arp and made some use of this method through chance operations
Goddess Witchy Art
Devotional Art for your home and hearth to inspire and bless your magical life by Kathy Crabbe.
Goddesses are the love of my life and each one of these paintings carries that energy and Divine Spirit.
My Sawdust Festival Art Booth, Laguna Beach
LuLu in Laguna Silk Art
The LuLu in Laguna series was inspired by 8 years living in mermaidalicious Laguna Beach, California with my 4-legged friends: Squeaky, Pin, and Bubbie. Below is a photo of my art booth at the Sawdust Art Festival. Each year we’d build a different booth and often there would be a ladder to a second floor as well - great for taking naps! The paintings in this Libra New Moon Collection are some of my favorites and very best selling images that are finally being released as originals.
Nude Alien Paintings 2021
Expanding perception and exploring consciousness via the power of chance and portals into chaos realms. By painting ‘otherness’ expressed via nude, non binary aliens I share my lived experience of being supernaturally gifted in the way I make these paintings. Each element of the painting is randomly (intuitively) chosen from 6 different sources. All these elements invite chance into the painting opening portals into chaos and deep play similar to the way my neurodivergent brain experiences the world.
Zodiac Goddess Power Deck Art
I felt it was important to portray the signs of the zodiac from a female perspective to balance out the predominantly male/god influences within society. We must awaken goddess energy right now for the sake of Mama Gaia, Mother Earth and our species. Much of this artwork can be found in my Zodiac Goddess Playbook and Zodiac Goddess Power deck.
Wood Art Paintings, Jewelry & Objects
I paint with acrylics and acrylic gouache on reclaimed pine board, vintage finds and on California oak and sugar bush collected from my Temecula, California property on the traditional land of the Payómkawichum.
I am a bridge between this world and Faerie. Art is in my blood going back generations. I paint to survive guided by talismans: a white feather, being ‘on-the-road’, the Czech folk art of my mother’s family and my cartoonist grandfather who speaks to me from Beyond inspiring me to keep it light.
About Scorpio
Scorpio Goddess Brigid by Kathy Crabbe (Zodiac Goddess Power Deck)
Scorpio the Scorpion, Phoenix & Eagle
Time of Year – October 21 - November 21
Quality – Fixed
Element – Water
Planetary Ruler – Pluto
Anatomy – Sex organs
Natural Sign of – 8th House
Color – Blood red, maroon
Gemstone – Malachite, opal, topaz
Tarot Card – Death
Scorpio Goddesses: Brigid, Hecate, Morgan, Selkhet
Scorpio Power Animals: Alligator, Anteater, Bat, Caterpillar, Chipmunk, Crow, Dragon, Dragonfly, Duck, Flamingo, Heron, Moth, Mouse, Owl, Raven, Sandpiper, Snake, Swan, Turtle, White Egret
Scorpio Herbs: Bearberry, Heather, Hops, Wormwood
Scorpio Meditation
Forever beauty we dance and spin,
ride our chariot, harness the wind,
find divine balance within.
Scorpio Affirmations
I am motivated, resourceful and determined
I risk honesty
I transcend earthly concerns and soar to new heights
I am magnetic and mysterious
I am Phoenix Rising
I have no fear of death
*excerpted from the Zodiac Goddess Power Deck