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
Student show reception coming up
This morning some of us in the Wednesday Studio helped our great teacher, Ellen Cornett, hang the art for this spring’s Adult Student. We call it “hanging the show,” which … Continue reading
Ellen Cornett exhibit to open April 4
Don’t miss “Once Upon a Time,” a new one-artist exhibit featuring 52 drawings used in four of Ellen’s recent books. The show runs April 4-24 at Artists and Makers Studios … Continue reading
Artomatic, DC’s huge annual art show, is open, and Ellen Cornett is exhibiting
If you’ve never been to the annual Artomatic event, you’re in for a treat. This year, 1,000 (!) visual and performing artists have filled seven floors at 2100 M Street, … Continue reading
First birds of 2024!
Here are the birds artists submitted for January 2024 Draw-a-Bird Day.
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
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
The ABCs of Birds: October 2023 DAB-Day
This month’s Draw-a-Bird Day theme is the ABCs of birds. If artists chose to do so, they could submit a bird starting with A, B, or C, either in its … Continue reading
September DAB-Day: Hawaiian Birds
As a tribute to Maui and the terrible fire that the people (and birds) there went through in August, we chose Hawaiian birds as the theme for this month’s Draw-a-Bird … Continue reading
August DAB-Day theme: Local Birds
For August I asked submitters to Draw-a-Bird Day to focus on their own local birds. We’ve enjoyed the months when there has been a DAB-Day theme–Ukrainian birds, extinct birds, and … Continue reading
THE WEDNESDAY STUDIO 