Butterfly Art

Have you heard about butterfly art? Butterflies can be used as a theme for endless arts and craft projects. Read on to find more about butterfly art ideas that will captivate the artist in you.

Butterflies are one of the most beautiful and interesting creatures in the world. One may not be aware but there are thousands of butterfly species identified. Butterflies are found in literally every color known to man. There are also several symbolisms and meanings associated with butterflies. Butterflies are also very popular in arts and crafts since a lot of creative articles can be made using butterfly as a theme, as a subject or an inspiration. Are you too looking for such butterfly art? Then, here are myriad ideas and types of arts that are based on butterflies. Let us take a look.

Butterfly Art Designs Butterflies are often found in nature drawings, landscapes, abstract art, etc. If you love drawing sketching, you can begin freehand drawing lessons with a picture of a butterfly. A butterfly is one of the easiest thing to draw and once you master the basic procedure, you can make variations and have different designs. You can also learn sketching techniques

and create your own butterfly art collection. Secondly, if you are looking for butterfly art for preschool and want kids to understand different colors, you can use the following butterfly coloring pages for the same. These butterfly art prints can be printed and painted with the colors of your choice!

Butterfly Arts and Crafts Now that you have learnt how to draw butterfly, why not put your art to good use to make something useful. Among the different butterfly arts and crafts

, a butterfly greeting card is the easiest and simplest one!

You can draw small butterflies on different colored papers, cut them and paste them directly on the greeting card paper. Just add your wishes with a creative message and fresh colors; and your personalized greeting card is ready! Another fascinating butterfly art project for kids is to draw different varieties of butterflies, cut them and paste them in a book to create your butterfly art book. Secondly, these colorful butterflies can be used as stickers and stuck on your bags, charts, etc. One of the other interesting preschool butterfly art is to stick these butterflies on magnets and use them as fridge magnets. More on:

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If you are looking for interesting butterfly crafts for teenagers, then making butterfly barrettes, decorating hair-bands and purses with butterflies are some of the unique ideas. You can buy an ordinary barrette, draw a small butterfly design on a satin cloth, cut it and paste it on the barrette.

Secondly, you can also use embroidery to make butterfly designs on your clothes, purse, bags, etc.

Beading

or beadwork is also one of the interesting butterfly art idea for teenagers and adults. Beaded butterfly patterns can be made using colorful beads of different sizes and shapes and it never goes out of fashion!

Butterfly Art: Tattoos and Face Painting

You must have noticed butterfly designs have dominated the tattoo culture all over the world.

Butterfly tattoos are one of the best designs for women and young girls. As mentioned above, butterflies are associated with different virtues like freedom, free living, etc. In some cultures, butterflies are believed to be holy creatures that carry one’s soul to the heaven after the persons’ death. Secondly, a pair of butterflies is also believed to symbolize love. If you are looking for permanent tattoos, you can go through butterfly tattoos for girls

and choose one that suits you the best.

On the other hand, if you do not wish to go for the permanent tattoos, you can go for semi permanent (those that last for a few days like henna tattoos) and temporary ones (lasting for a day or two). Butterfly is also one of the popular themes for face painting due to its colorful and attractive nature. You need to be careful about the colors you use in order to save your skin from damage. Henna is one of the safest types of temporary tattoo to be made on hands and feet.

Butterfly Art: “Capturing” Butterflies

Now apart from crafts, drawings and decorations, let’s get to something REAL. Yes, butterfly art using real butterflies as your theme; without actually harming them! Exotic butterfly art and butterfly photography are the two options for the same. Let us take a look at it in detail.

Exotic Butterfly Art

As a kid you must have loved chasing butterflies and capturing them in your fist. Well, it is of course inhuman and do not think of following it as an art venture. However, if you come across a beautiful dead butterfly and do not have a heart to dump it away, why not preserve it to make butterfly art frames?

Exotic butterfly art

is simply all about preserving dead butterflies and mounting them on frames to make a beautiful object of art! You can make this yourself by preserving a butterfly, then mounting it on an attractive frame for a lifetime. This type of art is highly commercialized today and very much in demand. So rather than capturing butterflies, look for the dead ones that can be preserved!

Butterfly Photography

Butterfly photographs by Dr. Masie M

Talking about ‘capturing’ butterflies, rather than chasing them, you can ‘capture’ them in your new camera! You may be marveling at the beautiful butterflies fluttering in your garden everyday. Why not brush up your photography skills to have wonderful butterfly pictures of your own? Initially you may get dull or blurred ones but practice makes man perfect! You can develop your butterfly pictures and make beautiful frames, paste them on paper to make greeting cards, or create your own butterfly art calender! There are just endless options to this butterfly photography art too!

These were some of the butterfly art ideas. You can at least try and learn either of these and once mastered, you can try out the other ones. Lastly, remember arts and crafts is all about imagination and creativity! Good luck!