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.
Cedar waxwings from previous posts
The Wednesday Studio blog has had eight appearances of cedar waxwings. Their mask and bright yellow tail tip are beautiful and distinguishing marks.
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
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
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
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
Birds fly high in July!
We have been publishing Draw-a-Bird Day art since September 2016! Meaning seven years, every month. I don’t have an easy way to count the birds without going through every blog … Continue reading
June is a great month for birds!
Here are the submissions for June 2023 Draw-a-Bird Day.
THE WEDNESDAY STUDIO 