The Dead Fly Project

The Dead Fly Project is a series of one hundred paintings, drawings, sculptures, whatever - depicting a dead fly - same fly - over and over again - but different each time by Beverley Conrad. She experiments with different mediums and executes them according to her whim at the time. Sometimes they're pretty, sometimes scary, sometimes funny, sometimes political, and sometimes a fly is just a fly.

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Dead Fly Show - Finally!

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See all 100 works art opening at The Art Academy of Milton , 38 S Front Street, Milton, PA, 17847. November 14, 2025 and running through Dec...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

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Dead Fly 68 Neon Fly oil on canvas 8"x10"      Every now and then our local PBS station shows Bob Rossi reruns on Sunday mornings....
Friday, October 31, 2025

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Dead Fly Number 2 Splat 5"x7" oil on canvas This one went really fast. I used a pallet knife for the most part, then added the sha...

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Dead Fly Number One oil on canvas 5"x7" This is my first painting of a dead fly. I did this in 2015 as part of my Vermin Series - ...

Dead Fly 100 - Covid Fly

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Dead Fly 100 The Numbers Increase The final work in this series is a large painting done with drips of acrylic paint. My daughter and I had ...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Dead Fly 99 - Froggy Does the World a Favor

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  Dead Fly 99 - Froggy Does the World a Favor pencil on paper 8" x 10"      I had hoped to do one more Dead Fly Froggy Christmas c...

Dead Fly 98 The Last Supper

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Dead Fly 98 The Last Supper oil on canvas 8" x 10"      Here is a Dead Fly painting I did in early 2020 before Covid hit. I wanted...

Dead Fly 97 - REAL Dead Fly Solarium

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Dead Fly 97 - REAL Dead Fly Solarium Mixed media approximately 10" by 5"      A few months into the Dead Fly project back in 2017 ...
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Sunday, January 17, 2021

Dead Fly 96 Apparel

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Dead Fly 96 Apparel Acrylic stamp on white cotton All this stamping going on! Although I looked up how to do a silk screen, it really was be...

Dead Fly 95 - Dead Fly Swatters

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Dead Fly 95  Dead Fly Swatters approximately 18" long - acrylic on plastic Because an artist has to make money and until the series is ...

Dead Fly 94 - Red on Red on Red

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Dead Fly 94 Red on Red on Red on Red acrylic on canvas 18" x 24"      This one took a long time. I liked the way Dead Fly 46 (Splo...
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Dead Fly 93 - Froggy Goes Holiday Shopping

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Dead Fly 93 - Froggy Goes Holiday Shopping Pencil on Paper approximately 8' x 10" The third, well, fourth actually if you in...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Dead Fly 92 - A Grand Experiment

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Dead Fly 92 - A Grand Experiment Acrylic and silicone on canvas 18" x 24" I've been reading about pour paintings usi...

Dead Fly 91 - Dead Fly on a Manila Folder

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Dead Fly 91 - Dead Fly on a Manila Folder Pencil on a manila folder Harking back to the original dead fly which was on a manila fo...

Dead Fly 90 - DIY Dead Fly Shadow

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Dead Fly 90 - DIY Dead Fly Shadow Mixed media on canvas 14" x 14" Here is an experiment. Sometimes I see things in my mi...
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Dead Fly 89 - The Executive

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Dead Fly 89 - The Executive Mixed media - 12" tall This one was made using aluminum foil as the base, covered with Sculpey. T...

Dead Fly 88 - Object D'Art

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Dead Fly 88 - Object D'Art mixed media 31" tall Here is the first sculpture I've done for this series if you don...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Dead Fly 87 - Picnic

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Dead Fly 87 - Picnic acrylic on canvas - 14" x 14" This one took a l-o-n-g time to do. I actually started this one a f...

Dead Fly 86 - Self Portrait

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Dead Fly 86 - Self Portrait watercolor on canvas 14"x 14" Unplanned subject, but I felt like doing a Dead Fly using ju...
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Dead Fly 85 Flying

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Dead Fly 85 - Flying watercolor on canvas 14' x 14" Back to the watercolor pencils. I felt like just working with limit...

Dead Fly 84 - We've Come to This

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Dead Fly 84 - We've Come to This acrylic on canvas with iron rust added Six canvasses 14" x 14" each This is my ...
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Dead Fly 83 - Experiment with Water Color

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Dead Fly 83 watercolor on canvas 8"x 10" I picked up a set of watercolor pencils and felt like trying them out.  One o...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Dead Fly 82 Modern Art Fly

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Dead Fly 82 - Modern Art Fly acrylic on canvas 14" x 14"      I bought some really cheap acrylic paints from our local...
Monday, April 1, 2019

Dead Fly 81 - Chaos

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Dead Fly 81 - Chaos acrylic on canvas 14" x 14"      Still at it with the drips. I had a rather disturbing week and need...

Dead Fly 80 - Swarm

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Dead Fly 80 - Swarm acrylic on canvas 8" x 10"      This is another experiment using that same paint but this is a wet...

Dead Fly 79 - Tumult

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Dead Fly 79 - Tumult acrylic on canvas 8"x 10"      I am trying out some new paint here and deiced to play fast and loos...
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Dead Fly 78 - Goth Fly

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Dead Fly 78 - Goth Fly hand-cut silhouette  on paper in pewter frame      Early in the beginning of this Dead Fly series I found ...

Dead Fly 77 - Dead Fly with Red Apple

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Dead Fly 77 - Dead Fly with Red Apple pastel on paper 9" x 12"      I actually used those pastel pencils to create this ...

Dead Fly 76 - Dead Fly with Green Apple

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Dead Fly 76 - Dead Fly with Green Apple Pastel on paper 9"x 12"       Still going with the pastels! Now that I broke t...

Dead Fly 75 - Study in Purple

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Dead Fly 75 - Study in Purple pastel on paper 9" x 12"      Back to pastels. I do like pastels because they allow me t...

Dead Fly 74 - Circles

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Dead Fly 74 - Circles acrylic  on canvas 16' x 20"      This one sat on the easel for a while just sketched out in char...

Dead Fly 73 - Santa Visits The Froggy's

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Dead Fly 73 - Santa Visits The Froggy's pencil on paper reproduced to create a Christmas card      The previous year (2017) ...

Dead Fly 72 - Ornament

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Dead Fly 72 - Ornament mixed media 3" diameter       It's hard to see the full beauty of this little gem given the refl...

Dead Fly 71 - Splat!

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Dead Fly 71 - Splat! acrylic on canvas 8" x 10"      Here's an experiment in color and paint - and painting fast! ...

Dead Fly 70 - study in charcoal

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Dead Fly 70 - charcoal study charcoal on paper 8" x 10"      Back to the basics once again. After the failure of the pas...

Dead Fly 69 - New Pencils

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Dead Fly 69 New Pencils pastel on paper 8"x 10"      This one will most likely go on the wall of failures. I include...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Dead Fly 67 Dead Fly on the Manila Folder

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Dead Fly 67 Dead Fly on the Manila Folder acrylic on canvas 46"x 48"       As I post this, this is still a work in p...

Dead Fly 66 Splat!

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Dead Fly 66 Splat! acrylic on canvas 8"x 10"      This one is off-center and would seem to be unbalanced but picture a...

Dead Fly 65 Purple Paint

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Dead Fly 65 Purple Paint acrylic on canvas 8"x 10"      Well, you can see I didn't rack my brain out trying to t...

Dead Fly 64 City-scape

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Dead Fly 64 City-Scape charcoal on canvas 8"x 10"      Sometimes I go to Astoria, NY to visit my son. We walk over t...

Dead Fly 63 Burning Fly

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Dead Fly 63 Burning Fly acrylic on canvas 8"x 10"       I did this in the autumn of 2018 around the same time as we ...

Dead Fly 62 Labor Day

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Dead Fly 62 Labor Day 2018 crayon on canvas 8"x 10"      No great shake-up in the art world with this one. It is what...

Dead Fly 61 wet on wet again

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Dead Fly 61 acrylic on canvas 8" x 8" (approximately)      The fly is a little misshapen in this painting. Again, this...

Dead Fly 60 Wet on wet continued in color

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Dead Fly 60 Landscape with Dead Fly acrylic on canvas 5"x 7"      After trying my hand at black and white doing the ...

Dead Fly 59 Wet on Wet

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Dead Fly 59 Wet on Wet acrylic on canvas-board 5" x 7"      This is another experiment in what paint does. Another a...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

Dead Fly 58 Cubist Fly

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Dead Fly 58 Cubist Fly acrylic on canvas 16"x 20      I tried my hand at cubism or at least what I think is cubism. Broke...
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Dead Fly 57 Still in troubled times

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Dead Fly 57 Fourth of July 2018 acrylic on canvas board 5"x 7"       The Fourth of July 2018 was a nice day weather ...

Dead Fly 56 Sometimes you just paint!

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Dead Fly 56 untitled acrylic on canvas 24" x 24"      This is one I started at The Arts Underground and finished at ...

Dead Fly 55 Frenzy

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Dead Fly 55 Frenzy acrylic on canvas board 5"x 7"      I find that there is a rhythm to the creation of these Dead Fl...
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Beverley Conrad is a writer, musician, and artist who lives in central Pennsylvania. She's played the fiddle most of her life and has published books and once went on a book tour with her dog. She's currently working on a series of one hundred works of art of a dead fly to see where it goes, how it progresses.
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