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Abigail Staffelbach
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Painter, muralist, native plant enthusiast, hobby potter, bird spotter, watcher of the changing seasons.
✨ painting murals around Indianapolis
✨ local commissions open!
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I wanted to share my street art starter pack I have been growing so folks can connect 🎨
Please share yours or any general art related starter packs in the comments if you have one❤️

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February 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I’m building a starter pack of muralists! Currently have 30+ but would love to add more to get this community connected.

#muralist #starterpack #artist #streetart #mural
February 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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It’s amazing how intimate drawing or painting something can be—somewhere between a quiet scientific discovery and meeting a new friend.

I’m learning so much, even just in little corners of this painting, staring at references until structure and pattern come alive.

#birdart #SciArt #oilpainting
Up close detail of an in-progress oil painting. The painting depicts a section of blue jay feathers spread in flight. The stage the painting is in shows detail in feather structure and wing anatomy. The colors are bright blues, white, grey, and black. The blue flight feathers have black bands. The little feathers on the body are softer and less structured, almost fluffy.
February 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Throwback to finishing the biggest public mural of my career. Here’s hoping for more opportunities like this in 2025. ☺️

#muralart #indiana #muralist #publicart #placemaking #mural #muralist #indyartist #streetart
An artist (Abigail Staffelbach) atop a ladder puts the finishing touches on a “postcard style” mural reading “Welcome to Cicero” & “More to Discover IN Indiana”. The letters of “CICERO” are each respectively filled with imagery of waterskiing, waving American flag, fishing, farmland, fireworks, and a train. The background behind the text is a blue sky above the town’s car & pedestrian friendly bridge which is decorated with flags for certain holidays. Framing the mural in the sky are clouds and three hot air balloons, one rainbow, one sunset colored, and one red, white, and blue. Framing the edges of the mural at the bottom are two clusters of oversized flowers native to Indiana, black eyed Susan’s and New England asters. Wildflowers like this are can be seen locally in Cicero’s Koteewi Park.
February 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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People say “paint what you know”: I know this. I know who lives in my woods, who leaves when the snow flies, who is seeking serviceberries or snatching spiders from their webs, who sings and who soars. I know in my gut the urgency our changing climate poses.

Work in progress, 4x4’, 11 bird species
A closeup of a section of an oil painting shows a male pileated woodpecker flying to the right on a background of blue sky and billowing, looming clouds. Other birds’ wings show in the cropped edges.
January 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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In the last week, I drywalled our 5’x5’ sump pump “room” with my partner and then painted a whimsical little freehand mural to make the formerly dingy space with its uncovered fiberglass insulation into a welcoming little storage space for my mural supplies!
A tiny room (5’x5’) has a sump pump in the middle up the floor and two pipes traveling from the pump to the ceiling. The walls are painted in a 2D boho organic style and color palette. The colors are muted greens, tans, and fleshy pinks. The background is white. Organic abstract shapes ranging from circles, to oxbows, to bean-shaped curves are accented with simplified foliage in large blocks of color and delicate thin linework.
January 26, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Some of my favorite projects are murals for local businesses, like this one for a salon in Broad Ripple, IN. Unique, publicly accessible art not only makes those businesses more memorable and beautiful, but enhances their communities with placemaking.
A mural of three stargazer lilies adorns the side of a building. The sign over the door reads, “Urban Elements Salon”. Closeup detail of a stargazer lily hand painted on siding.
January 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I painted this mural for an ophthalmologist to celebrate their work (without painting literal Great Gatsby giant eyes to stare at the neighbors). This design highlighted “eyespots” found in nature and used mandala-inspired concentric patterns to evoke the beauty of the human iris. #sciart #mural
A hand-painted symmetrical mural on a two-car garage door features mandala patterns, moths, peacock feathers, and flowers. The mural is meant to explore “eye” themed imagery.
January 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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“Wings From a Spicebush” 2024.
Acrylic & gold leaf on wood.

This little painting celebrates the relationship between the spicebush swallowtail and their host plant, the spicebush.

In the first year after planting in my shady backyard, I had caterpillars and eggs on my plants!

Plant native! 💚
A round painting on a raw wood panels hangs on a dark green wall. The painting depicts a spicebush swallowtail butterfly in flight, framed against a circle of gold leaf suggesting the sun. To the left of the butterfly, a sprig of greenery with red berries from a spicebush slants diagonally top left to bottom right of the panel. The Spicebush is the host plant for the spicebush swallowtail butterfly. It lays its eggs on the foliage, which the caterpillars eat upon hatching.
January 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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This mural is my first to be painted over. While sad to see it go, and sadder still the NA bar there didn’t make it, I got to meet the new owners before it was covered. It was really nice to let it go with love & wish them well on their new tea room. They even let me come in & take a few pics!
An interior, mostly greyscale, 12ft tall mural of a skeletal grim reaper in a flowing cloak and clutching a scythe. The reaper wears pink and blue 3D glasses, and its mouth is open. Behind the skeleton, a raven with a skeletal beak and head flies ahead where the reaper is looking. A pocket watch on a chain dangles from its beak, reading “11”, symbolizing the 11th hour of life. Gothic text on the clock face reads “memento mori”. The interior room has architectural details of four black gothic arches between the mural and the ceiling. This artwork was hand painted by Abigail Staffelbach for Memento, a non-alcoholic bar and coffee shop that was briefly open in Fishers, IN.
January 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The news has felt so bleak, so today I am focusing on feeling grateful for all the people who have given me the opportunity to put beauty into the world with my mural art. I’m grateful to all the wonderful humans who have entrusted me to paint their dreams. These peonies bloom year-round in Indy.
Mural art of a cluster of hot pink peony blooms with yellow centers decorate a maroon single-car garage door. The vibrant blooms and green leaves are accented with a deep maroon drop shadow.
January 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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A little work in progress from my studio!
An artist’s hand hold up a small, round-paneled, in-progress painting of a raccoon looking at a paw paw it has taken several bites out of. The background is an out of focus green. Behind the panel, several other small artworks featuring various butterflies are visible.
January 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM