Table Leg Dragonfly with Beaded Wire Wings, Recycled Art

Update as of Spring 2016, I'm no longer making the dragonflies.

I sincerely appreciate all the past orders, thank you!

Please visit my new online shop featuring my coastal and 

nature themed mosaics. 

I used to make dragonflies long before I first blogged about them

and would use wire for the wing shape and cover with window screen 

and attach beads or glue painted canvas to the wire wing form.

I don't have an instructional but I made the wings with thick wire,

then filled the insides of the wings with thinner wire and glass beads.

Update! There is now a tutorial for the beaded wing dragonfly!

There's no real method to the bead placement,

I kind of add them in a random pattern.

Copper wire antenna and metal pieces for the eyes...

Please...no more emails telling me dragonflies don't have antenna!

These are whimsical creations and I added big swirly antenna to some of them. 😃

He has a pretty turquoise blue body...

I also added a metal piece at the tail for a pop of color,  believe it is a

washing machine hose clamp.

This style is quite a bit more time consuming to make but 

he turned out great.

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I still have some items in my Etsy shop as well.

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