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
Tara’s and Carolyn’s works chosen for exhibit
Congratulations to Tara Hamilton and Carolyn Rondthaler for having their watercolors chosen for the current juried art show, “Color Explosion,” sponsored by the Capitol Hill Art League. The show, juried … 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
Capitol Hill Art Walk a huge success
Last week-end the Capitol Hill Art League sponsored an “art walk,” where artists displayed (and sold) their works at their homes–either outside or inside or, sometimes, both. On Saturday I … 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
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