Metal insects

While making something from metal requires a lot of patience and skills, creating art from repurposed metal materials takes even more time and accuracy. The talented artists presented in this list prove that scrap metal could be transformed even into impressive pieces of creative art.

The welded scrap-metal bugs of Green Hand Sculpture are gorgeous, intricate, labor-intensive, and therefore expensive, but surely worth ever cent: Preying Mantis, Holly Blue Butterfly, Woodlouse, Peacock Butterfly and the…

Alas, the humble trilobite will probably never star in its own Saturday morning cartoon or make it into next year’s lineup of Beanie Babies, mostly because it is distinctly unhuggable....

Steampunk [1] has inspired much in the way of design, fashion, art, etc. Its gadgets are delightful and its vision of a Victorian era that never was is intriguing. Especially when it comes to steam…

Rhinoceros beetle by Oleg Konstantinov. Silver dipped

Dr. Allan Drummond works at the intersection of art, design, and science with his metallic replicas of wide-eyed spiders, ants, and other winged insects. He buoys his research in the departments of Medicine and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago into a creative practice that casts biologically realistic specimens with a focusContinue reading "Metallic Specimens by Dr. Allan Drummond Perfectly Replicate Prehistoric and Modern Insects in Bronze and Silver"

Julie Alice Chappell upcycles electronic scrap into beautiful winged insect sculptures.

Metal Spider Sculpture by Ken Neiderer body made of spoons?