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
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.
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
Our art is on display in DC gallery until May 18 (reception this Sunday)
“The World as We See It” is the Wednesday Studio exhibit currently at Frame of Mine on Capitol Hill (545 8th Street SE). You can stop by any time Frame … 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.
CHAW Student Show bigger than ever
The current semiannual student show at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop is pretty awesome, and the opening reception on December 9 was awesome, too. For starters, there were 39 works … Continue reading
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
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