Bird illustrator, author, and birder David Sibley shares video instructions for sketching a Long-billed Curlew and a Saltmarsh Sparrow (photo by Bob O’Connor).

Now you can draw a field sketch of a Long-billed Curlew and a Saltmarsh Sparrow with America’s premier birder and bird artist, David Sibley. By watching and listening to his videos on two of Audubon’s Facebook pages, you can sketch right along with him, line by line if you wish. It’s remarkable to watch how Sibley uses simple bird drawing methods, yet ends up with such impressive sketches of these birds. Even just viewing and listening to the videos is fun, and they only run 5 to 6 minutes each.

To draw a field sketch of a Long-billed Curlew, you can watch and listen to David Sibley’s video on Audubon’s Facebook page at

https://www.facebook.com/NationalAudubonSociety/videos/drawing-a-long-billed-curlew-with-david-allen-sibley/1177653765930107/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos

Likewise, you can learn to draw a Saltmarsh Sparrow at https://www.facebook.com/NationalAudubonSociety/videos/drawing-a-saltmarsh-sparrow-with-david-allen-sibley/2627185364266941/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos, which you can use as the basis for sketching any number of small songbirds using Sibley’s techniques.