THE WEDNESDAY STUDIO

Watercolor and Pastel Artists at CHAW

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

July 9, 2024 · 8 Comments

It’s June, and birds are busting out all over

Here are the wonderful birds that artists submitted for June Draw-a-Bird Day:

June 9, 2024 · 2 Comments

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.

May 10, 2024 · 2 Comments

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

April 9, 2024 · Leave a comment

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

March 9, 2024 · 3 Comments

First birds of 2024!

Here are the birds artists submitted for January 2024 Draw-a-Bird Day.

January 9, 2024 · 1 Comment

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

December 9, 2023 · 1 Comment

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

November 9, 2023 · 6 Comments

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

October 9, 2023 · 3 Comments

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

September 9, 2023 · 2 Comments