Right now, students from around Greenville County are painting thousands of bright ceramic butterflies and learning about a very dark time in history. They are taking part in The Butterfly Project, ...

We did a project on structures for school. I chose butterflies for my inspiration because I found it interesting that they are made up of two structures. The first is the main structure of the ...

At first look, Tim Yanke’s butterfly painting feels as if the insects are coming to life. But being an innovator, he wanted to take things a step further. His painting “Peta louthias,” Greek for ...

Back in the day, paint often got its color from the actual animal kingdom. Insects like cochineal and carmine gave us rich blues and blood reds. Renaissance painters used egg as a binder in tempura ...

I Am Become Death, Shatterer Of Worlds – a title echoing the words of scientist J Robert Oppenheimer after the detonation of the first atom bomb – is Hirst's largest painting using butterfly wings.

Whenever artist Shakira DeRoza sees something with a butterfly on it, she has to buy it. Butterflies are a reminder of her late sister, Shakeya DeRoza, who was murdered in 2009. “She just loved ...