For The Times’s summer birding project, I spoke to the field guide illustrator about how to sketch a bird. Here’s how he draws a black-capped chickadee → Start with a circle, then add an oval. Draw a ...

It's "Draw a Bird Day," and if you didn't know that was a thing, it's okay, neither did we — but what better way to celebrate than learning how to draw everyone's favorite cartoon bird, Woodstock?

Draw around a grown-up's hand on coloured paper. Get your grown-up to help you cut out the hand shape. Do this using several different colours. Draw a parrot head with a beak and eye. Ask a grown-up ...