#insects
for a school assignment where you had to draw a self portrait as a grotesque bug but it turned into an ode to insects found in ukraine
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for a school assignment where you had to draw a self portrait as a grotesque bug but it turned into an ode to insects found in ukraine
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Before I painted this I had no idea what fireflies looked like before they became beetles. Then after I found out they just became even cooler!
Also here are some cool facts I found out when I was researching them:
1. They can glow at every stage of their lives. From the egg to pupa stage its usually like a faint glow and then in the adult beetle stage they flash or blink.
2. They stay in the larva stage for like 2 years until they pupate.
3. When they’re in the larva stage they eat all kinds of other insects even snails and slugs.
4. I just think they’re really cool. Also after I finished this painting I served seeing so many firefly larva it was so cool!!
Also I do have prints of this illustration in my etsy shop. It’s linked below.
I painted this little insect ID card for this moth I saw this summer. I had never seen one before. My favorite part was painting all the little stripes ans dots on the caterpiller!
[grabs your shirt] listen. listen to me. the practical is holy. the everyday is sacred. the simple act of surviving is divine. do you get it? sanctity begins at home, in the hands that build and the lives we live and the deaths we die and the worms that eat our bodies. if making something by hand is not worthy of veneration then nothing is.
