THE WEDNESDAY STUDIO

Watercolor and Pastel Artists at CHAW

Costa Rica Draw-a-Bird Day continues . . .

We have another piece of art for birds of Costa Rica. This just in from Kay Elsasser, who is allowed this late submission because she was out of town.

July 18, 2024 · Leave a comment

Birds of Costa Rica featured in July DAB-Day

The Draw-a-Bird Day theme this month is the birds of Costa Rica. Wikipedia informs us that Costa Rica, which is smaller than the state of West Virginia, has the greatest … Continue reading

July 9, 2024 · 8 Comments

It’s June, and birds are busting out all over

Here are the wonderful birds that artists submitted for June Draw-a-Bird Day:

June 9, 2024 · 2 Comments

Nocturnal birds is theme for May Draw-a-Bird Day

There are more than 11,000 species of birds. Not that many are nocturnal. Here are some of them.

May 10, 2024 · 2 Comments

April DAB-Day theme: Shore Birds

Artists were invited to submit work showing shore birds for April Draw-a-Bird Day. What a delight to see all of these water birds. Both Judith Davis and Tara Hamilton chose … Continue reading

April 9, 2024 · Leave a comment

Birds you probably have seen here before

The Wednesday Studio, with contributions from others, has been blogging on Draw-a-Bird Day since 2016. Every month. That has yielded a lot of birds! I got the great (to me) … Continue reading

March 15, 2024 · 2 Comments

Great variety for March Draw-a-Bird Day

Here are the great birds submitted by artists for March DAB-Day. [Did anyone even notice that the blog did not have a DAB-Day post in February? That’s what I thought. … Continue reading

March 9, 2024 · 3 Comments

First birds of 2024!

Here are the birds artists submitted for January 2024 Draw-a-Bird Day.

January 9, 2024 · 1 Comment

What’s in a name? Quite a lot when it comes to birds.

This month’s theme for Draw-a-Bird Day is collective nouns for bird groups. It sounded like an innocent-enough theme when we started out. But it’s complicated. First, as we learned from … Continue reading

December 9, 2023 · 1 Comment

National birds–some quite exotic, all wonderful–fly in for November Draw-a-Bird Day

Artists have had great fun this month with the theme “national birds.” Wikipedia conveniently provided us a list of them. I noticed 13 countries have an eagle as their national … Continue reading

November 9, 2023 · 6 Comments