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]]>Dragonflies have often served as a muse for innovators, inspiring many new technologies with their expert flying abilities. They’re among the world’s fastest flying insects and can reach a speed of up to 35 miles per hour, flying in six different directions.
Another fascinating fact about dragonflies is that they spend most of their lives underwater. They are adapted for aquatic life, especially during their early years, with babies usually spending two years underwater after hatching.
Eyes are another compelling part of dragonflies’ anatomy. They’re made up of around 30,000 tiny facets that can all see independently, with a nearly 360-degree field of view.
Since they happen to be expert hunters, dragonflies are actually pretty beneficial to people. A single dragonfly can eat up to 100 mosquitoes per day, helping control the populations of pest insects.
Dragonflies have a unique mating process, and the wheel position they take while trying to reproduce has often been compared to the shape of a heart.
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]]>The post Cristie Shires Abbott’s Wood Art Celebrates the World of Insects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Cristie Shires Abbott is the founder of CSAcreative, and she built quite a following on Instagram since she started sharing her art with the world. She now specializes in making nature-inspired home and event decorations with arcane influence, and her inspiration mostly comes from her surroundings and celebrates the natural world.
“With a history of fine art, graphic design, and architecture, I compiled my skills and interests to create a unique style of home decor using wood as a medium. My artwork is inspired by nature, with a focus on insects, botanicals, and the moon,” she writes on her Etsy page.
Abbott finds inspiration everywhere she looks, and we’ve often seen her celebrate flora and fauna through her works of art, but insects are one of her most common subjects. She enjoys capturing the beauty of these overlooked creatures, and we’ve seen her wooden works of art take the shape of butterflies, moths, beetles, cicadas, bees, and many other insects.
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]]>The post Nicole Parish’s Love for Insects Shines Through Her Art appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Parish describes herself as an autistic insect artist, and her paintings are a love letter to the natural world. She spent her childhood playing outdoors and looking for insects in the dirt after the book A Girl of the Limberlost made her fall in love with this overlooked species.
“I then grew up taking care of praying mantises, beetles, butterflies, and moths, along with other creatures like snails and spiders. Saving the insects I found and cared for, I learned how to preserve them once they passed. My collection grew and soon became the subject of my art,” she explains on her official website.
One of the best things about Parish’s paintings is her incredible attention to detail. She has an impressive personal collection of insects and has a habit of placing them next to the canvas to use as a reference. By doing so, she’s able to capture insects as accurately as possible, and most of them are painted in scale.
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]]>The post Donna Smyth is Stitching Together The Most Magnificent Insects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Smyth decided to give embroidery a shot after a trip to a local craft gift shop three decades ago, and she’s been obsessed with it ever since.
“There is nothing on Earth quite as beautiful as embroidery to an embroiderer. The thrill of stitching and finishing a piece brings happiness to the embroiderer. It is a gift to us that we get joy from stitching that others sometimes do not understand. But we know and understand this gift and cherish it,” she wrote on her Etsy page.
Smyth can stitch together pretty much anything, but insects are definitely her favorite subject. She’s a huge fan of moths, butterflies, and dragonflies, and her hoops are a love letter to these extraordinary creatures.
In addition to sharing her art with almost 40,000 followers on Instagram, Smyth is also running a successful Etsy page. She’s using this platform to sell digital PDF patterns, helping other people who love embroidery and insects as much as she does kick-start their creative journey.
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]]>The post Brooke Thivierge is Creating Beautiful Mugs Inspired By Insects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Thivierge received her degree in fine arts from the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and this was where she discovered her passion for pottery. After years of focusing on painting, she discovered a whole new world of possibilities once she started working with clay, and she decided to mix her knowledge of painting and functional pottery once she mastered underglaze.
She found success on Instagram under the moniker @batsceramics and attracted 30,000 followers to her page with her nature-inspired ceramics.
“My inspiration comes from flora and fauna from around the world. Growing up I was taught to respect the outdoors and never take more than you need. My work is meant to help others acknowledge their connection to nature, to always remember nature is a part of you, and never take it for granted,” she explains on her official website.
Thivierge’s body of work is a love letter to all creatures, great and small, but insects definitely hold a special place in her heart. From moths and butterflies to mantises and lady beetles, we’ve seen her pay homage to many different insect species through her body of work.
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]]>The post Sarah Kiser Celebrates Insects in All Their Magnificent Glory appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Kiser has always been a creative soul and enjoyed expressing herself artistically, but decided to pursue creative writing instead of art in college. She felt it was a safer career choice, but life eventually took her in a different direction, and she now runs a successful Etsy store and an Instagram page with almost 130,000 followers.
Before becoming an artist, Kiser spent six years working at an organic farm in Tallahassee, enjoying the sunshine, wildlife, and wildflowers, and this experience significantly influenced her artistic journey.
“When I started having children and left my job to care for them, I found that I missed the productive peacefulness of working out in nature, so I decided to bring nature back into my life through my illustrations, and I was able to reclaim a bit of me in the process,” she wrote on her Etsy page.
Kiser enjoys capturing all sorts of wild animals in her signature magical artistic style, but she’s also a huge fan of insects and has a soft spot for moths and butterflies.
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]]>The post Hayley Warburton is Painting Insects on Recycled Wood appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Warburton is a talented artist from Hull, Yorkshire, who enjoys painting on sustainably sourced wood slices and reclaimed wood boards. She loves spending a lot of time outdoors, enjoying nature, and carefully observing everything that goes on around her.
She has a special talent for transforming everything she sees into art, and her paintings pay homage to many different wildlife species. She’s a huge fan of insects, as well, and we’ve seen her immortalize bees, butterflies, and ladybugs through her amazing paintings.
Since nature happens to be her favorite subject, it’s extremely important for Warburton to keep her art as sustainable as possible. All of her paintings are hand-painted because she wanted to give them a natural feel, and she’s using sustainably sourced wood every step of the way.
“All the wood I use comes from recycled and sustainable sources, including recycled off-cuts, fallen branches, and coppiced woodlands. I try to source my materials locally where possible, using recycled wood yards,” she writes on her Etsy page.
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]]>The post Grant Menzies is Inviting You To Discover the Beauty of Insects Through His Art appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Menzies is an illustrator and designer from Sweden, who’s always been driven by the captivating intricacies of the natural world. Most of his illustrations are deeply rooted in his love for entomology, and even the name of his brand is a love letter to insects.
Coleoptera is the name of the order of insects that includes beetles, his primary source of inspiration.
“Coleoptera Art embodies my passion for nature and meticulous attention to detail, reflected in my artwork… Many of my pieces involve sustainably sourced and respectfully preserved beetles that serve as reference points,” he writes on his Etsy page, adding that a tree will be planted in association with One Tree Planted for each print he sells.
Menzies studies his subjects pretty closely, and his incredible attention to detail is one of his strongest qualities. His meticulous drawings perfectly capture the intricate details of each of his subjects, ranging from different types of beetles to grasshoppers, butterflies, and bees.
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]]>The post Nussay Watercolor is Using Art To Raise Awareness About Insects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Touriño is a talented watercolor painter from Chiapas, Mexico, and a single glance at her Instagram page will tell you what her art is all about. She specializes in painting insects, and her incredibly detailed watercolor paintings attracted almost 30,000 followers to her Instagram page.
Touriño’s decision to focus on painting insects wasn’t a coincidence. As a mom herself, she wanted her illustrations to unlock kids’ awareness about the importance of biodiversity and the role these tiny creatures play in our ecosystem.
“Illustrating insects allows me to observe the tiniest details and reproduce these beautiful creatures for people to have in their homes without harming them. Also, children are the future of tomorrow and we need to teach them the importance of these small dwellers of our world,” she writes on her official website.
Her drawings ended up spreading bug love to hundreds of homes in the shape of many different products inspired by her paintings, ranging from prints and postcards to mugs, tote bags, and shirts.
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]]>The post Moon Creatures is Transforming Insects Into Victorian Art appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Moon Creatures’ opulent and bizarre creations are a love letter to insects, and they get to be preserved forever through her art. In addition to insects, her art involves the use of ornate frames, winding branches, crystals, moss, and lichens, and they perfectly come together to create something truly breathtaking.
Sofie is dedicated to keeping her art as ethical and sustainable as possible, and she’s using specimens sourced from nearby insect farms.
“The specimens are sustainably sourced from farms dedicated to their life and preservation. A majority of the specimens are released into their natural habitat to live out their full lifespan and help to re-populate and preserve the species,” reads Moon Creatures’ official website.
These insects get to live their second life through Moon Creatures’ art, created with one goal in mind—to cherish their beauty for eternity. Sofie mostly works with butterflies and moths, but we’ve also seen her preserve the delicate beauty of many other species, including beetles, grasshoppers, wasps, and even scorpions.
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]]>The post 5 Fun Facts About Dragonflies That Will Leave You Speechless appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Dragonflies have often served as a muse for innovators, inspiring many new technologies with their expert flying abilities. They’re among the world’s fastest flying insects and can reach a speed of up to 35 miles per hour, flying in six different directions.
Another fascinating fact about dragonflies is that they spend most of their lives underwater. They are adapted for aquatic life, especially during their early years, with babies usually spending two years underwater after hatching.
Eyes are another compelling part of dragonflies’ anatomy. They’re made up of around 30,000 tiny facets that can all see independently, with a nearly 360-degree field of view.
Since they happen to be expert hunters, dragonflies are actually pretty beneficial to people. A single dragonfly can eat up to 100 mosquitoes per day, helping control the populations of pest insects.
Dragonflies have a unique mating process, and the wheel position they take while trying to reproduce has often been compared to the shape of a heart.
The post 5 Fun Facts About Dragonflies That Will Leave You Speechless appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>The post Cristie Shires Abbott’s Wood Art Celebrates the World of Insects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Cristie Shires Abbott is the founder of CSAcreative, and she built quite a following on Instagram since she started sharing her art with the world. She now specializes in making nature-inspired home and event decorations with arcane influence, and her inspiration mostly comes from her surroundings and celebrates the natural world.
“With a history of fine art, graphic design, and architecture, I compiled my skills and interests to create a unique style of home decor using wood as a medium. My artwork is inspired by nature, with a focus on insects, botanicals, and the moon,” she writes on her Etsy page.
Abbott finds inspiration everywhere she looks, and we’ve often seen her celebrate flora and fauna through her works of art, but insects are one of her most common subjects. She enjoys capturing the beauty of these overlooked creatures, and we’ve seen her wooden works of art take the shape of butterflies, moths, beetles, cicadas, bees, and many other insects.
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]]>The post Nicole Parish’s Love for Insects Shines Through Her Art appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Parish describes herself as an autistic insect artist, and her paintings are a love letter to the natural world. She spent her childhood playing outdoors and looking for insects in the dirt after the book A Girl of the Limberlost made her fall in love with this overlooked species.
“I then grew up taking care of praying mantises, beetles, butterflies, and moths, along with other creatures like snails and spiders. Saving the insects I found and cared for, I learned how to preserve them once they passed. My collection grew and soon became the subject of my art,” she explains on her official website.
One of the best things about Parish’s paintings is her incredible attention to detail. She has an impressive personal collection of insects and has a habit of placing them next to the canvas to use as a reference. By doing so, she’s able to capture insects as accurately as possible, and most of them are painted in scale.
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]]>The post Donna Smyth is Stitching Together The Most Magnificent Insects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Smyth decided to give embroidery a shot after a trip to a local craft gift shop three decades ago, and she’s been obsessed with it ever since.
“There is nothing on Earth quite as beautiful as embroidery to an embroiderer. The thrill of stitching and finishing a piece brings happiness to the embroiderer. It is a gift to us that we get joy from stitching that others sometimes do not understand. But we know and understand this gift and cherish it,” she wrote on her Etsy page.
Smyth can stitch together pretty much anything, but insects are definitely her favorite subject. She’s a huge fan of moths, butterflies, and dragonflies, and her hoops are a love letter to these extraordinary creatures.
In addition to sharing her art with almost 40,000 followers on Instagram, Smyth is also running a successful Etsy page. She’s using this platform to sell digital PDF patterns, helping other people who love embroidery and insects as much as she does kick-start their creative journey.
The post Donna Smyth is Stitching Together The Most Magnificent Insects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>The post Brooke Thivierge is Creating Beautiful Mugs Inspired By Insects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Thivierge received her degree in fine arts from the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and this was where she discovered her passion for pottery. After years of focusing on painting, she discovered a whole new world of possibilities once she started working with clay, and she decided to mix her knowledge of painting and functional pottery once she mastered underglaze.
She found success on Instagram under the moniker @batsceramics and attracted 30,000 followers to her page with her nature-inspired ceramics.
“My inspiration comes from flora and fauna from around the world. Growing up I was taught to respect the outdoors and never take more than you need. My work is meant to help others acknowledge their connection to nature, to always remember nature is a part of you, and never take it for granted,” she explains on her official website.
Thivierge’s body of work is a love letter to all creatures, great and small, but insects definitely hold a special place in her heart. From moths and butterflies to mantises and lady beetles, we’ve seen her pay homage to many different insect species through her body of work.
The post Brooke Thivierge is Creating Beautiful Mugs Inspired By Insects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>The post Sarah Kiser Celebrates Insects in All Their Magnificent Glory appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Kiser has always been a creative soul and enjoyed expressing herself artistically, but decided to pursue creative writing instead of art in college. She felt it was a safer career choice, but life eventually took her in a different direction, and she now runs a successful Etsy store and an Instagram page with almost 130,000 followers.
Before becoming an artist, Kiser spent six years working at an organic farm in Tallahassee, enjoying the sunshine, wildlife, and wildflowers, and this experience significantly influenced her artistic journey.
“When I started having children and left my job to care for them, I found that I missed the productive peacefulness of working out in nature, so I decided to bring nature back into my life through my illustrations, and I was able to reclaim a bit of me in the process,” she wrote on her Etsy page.
Kiser enjoys capturing all sorts of wild animals in her signature magical artistic style, but she’s also a huge fan of insects and has a soft spot for moths and butterflies.
The post Sarah Kiser Celebrates Insects in All Their Magnificent Glory appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>The post Hayley Warburton is Painting Insects on Recycled Wood appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Warburton is a talented artist from Hull, Yorkshire, who enjoys painting on sustainably sourced wood slices and reclaimed wood boards. She loves spending a lot of time outdoors, enjoying nature, and carefully observing everything that goes on around her.
She has a special talent for transforming everything she sees into art, and her paintings pay homage to many different wildlife species. She’s a huge fan of insects, as well, and we’ve seen her immortalize bees, butterflies, and ladybugs through her amazing paintings.
Since nature happens to be her favorite subject, it’s extremely important for Warburton to keep her art as sustainable as possible. All of her paintings are hand-painted because she wanted to give them a natural feel, and she’s using sustainably sourced wood every step of the way.
“All the wood I use comes from recycled and sustainable sources, including recycled off-cuts, fallen branches, and coppiced woodlands. I try to source my materials locally where possible, using recycled wood yards,” she writes on her Etsy page.
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]]>The post Grant Menzies is Inviting You To Discover the Beauty of Insects Through His Art appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Menzies is an illustrator and designer from Sweden, who’s always been driven by the captivating intricacies of the natural world. Most of his illustrations are deeply rooted in his love for entomology, and even the name of his brand is a love letter to insects.
Coleoptera is the name of the order of insects that includes beetles, his primary source of inspiration.
“Coleoptera Art embodies my passion for nature and meticulous attention to detail, reflected in my artwork… Many of my pieces involve sustainably sourced and respectfully preserved beetles that serve as reference points,” he writes on his Etsy page, adding that a tree will be planted in association with One Tree Planted for each print he sells.
Menzies studies his subjects pretty closely, and his incredible attention to detail is one of his strongest qualities. His meticulous drawings perfectly capture the intricate details of each of his subjects, ranging from different types of beetles to grasshoppers, butterflies, and bees.
The post Grant Menzies is Inviting You To Discover the Beauty of Insects Through His Art appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>The post Nussay Watercolor is Using Art To Raise Awareness About Insects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Touriño is a talented watercolor painter from Chiapas, Mexico, and a single glance at her Instagram page will tell you what her art is all about. She specializes in painting insects, and her incredibly detailed watercolor paintings attracted almost 30,000 followers to her Instagram page.
Touriño’s decision to focus on painting insects wasn’t a coincidence. As a mom herself, she wanted her illustrations to unlock kids’ awareness about the importance of biodiversity and the role these tiny creatures play in our ecosystem.
“Illustrating insects allows me to observe the tiniest details and reproduce these beautiful creatures for people to have in their homes without harming them. Also, children are the future of tomorrow and we need to teach them the importance of these small dwellers of our world,” she writes on her official website.
Her drawings ended up spreading bug love to hundreds of homes in the shape of many different products inspired by her paintings, ranging from prints and postcards to mugs, tote bags, and shirts.
The post Nussay Watercolor is Using Art To Raise Awareness About Insects appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>The post Moon Creatures is Transforming Insects Into Victorian Art appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.
]]>Moon Creatures’ opulent and bizarre creations are a love letter to insects, and they get to be preserved forever through her art. In addition to insects, her art involves the use of ornate frames, winding branches, crystals, moss, and lichens, and they perfectly come together to create something truly breathtaking.
Sofie is dedicated to keeping her art as ethical and sustainable as possible, and she’s using specimens sourced from nearby insect farms.
“The specimens are sustainably sourced from farms dedicated to their life and preservation. A majority of the specimens are released into their natural habitat to live out their full lifespan and help to re-populate and preserve the species,” reads Moon Creatures’ official website.
These insects get to live their second life through Moon Creatures’ art, created with one goal in mind—to cherish their beauty for eternity. Sofie mostly works with butterflies and moths, but we’ve also seen her preserve the delicate beauty of many other species, including beetles, grasshoppers, wasps, and even scorpions.
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