Dragonfly art, recycled table leg dragonfly art in Peacock and Zebra designs

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 just finished two peacock dragonflies with textured wings...

I painted the body black and added dots and stripes...

I used Flexall, type of joint compound, for the wings.

I applied the Flexall, then made the larger part of the pattern using my 

fingers and the outer edges with a notched squeegee. 

Copper strap antenna and a drawer pull for eyes...

Here's another peacock...

and the wings have a green background...

A pic of the back since I get so many emails and questions

asking how I attach the wings.

I use screws, 2 per wing.

I also made a few more zebra designs since the last ones went pretty 

quickly, and some of these have already sold too.

You guys must love zebra and animal prints as much as I do!

This guy has vintage glass knobs for the eyes and a

recycled lamp harp for the antenna....

If you want to use harps in this way, 

you will need a vice to bend them since they are super thick and 

reeeeally hard to bend.

I love painting zebra print! You can search my page for "zebra" and

 see lots of zebra things I've made in the past,

including yellow zebra.

I made another zebra butterfly...

I used  "#9" house numbers for the antenna on this one...

The body is a chair leg and I added a smaller piece of wood on top

with mismatched glass bead eyes....

I cut the wings out of Luan, sometimes called "Underlayment".

And another pic of how the wings are attached...

don't forget to predrill your holes first...trust me

This is a dark brown zebra dragonfly, 

he's already on his way to his new home...

I used a metal piece on the body...

More mismatched glass bead eyes and copper plumbing strap

for the antenna....Did you know that dragonflies really only

have very tiny antenna that you can hardly see?

I have been reminded of that many times with emails from people LOL.

In my mind, these are whimsical creations so I think a few 

swirly antenna are perfectly fine 😎

Then I made a black and white zebra butterfly with the

coolest carved wood body...

More lamp harp antenna and glass bead eyes...

I added this unknown metal piece because I thought it looked funky

Since I'm on to the black and white, I'll show you 

this one too even though it's not a zebra or a peacock...

He has a fun painted polka dot body...

I bent and curled silverware for the antenna.

The wings are ceiling fan blades that came with these decorative

brass pieces on the ends, I cut the holes out with a 

hole cutting bit on the drill.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the dragonflies!

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