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
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
Missing my buddies
The Wednesday Studio is on a summer break, and it’s lonely on Wednesday mornings. In lieu of seeing them in person, I’m posting a few pics I took last winter … 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 