79: Using Art to Build Awareness, with Artist and Bird-Nerd Hannah Shand

Mike reflects on a small flood as well as some recent artwork. Hannah Shand then joins the podcast to talk about her journey from fashion design to a becoming successful artist with a focus on rendering birds in ink. Mike and Hannah explore her art, inspiration, tools, and also talk about photography. Hannah drops some golden nuggets of advice for all creatives and she provides two homework exercises. Feeding bitterns (YouTube) Paper sizes A1-A6 Staedtler Pigment liners (0.05) Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B pencils Fabriano Artistico hot press extra white Staedtler Mars Matic 0.13  Ian de Hoog Bird in a flower (hiding feet :-) ) ’Whisper’ owl Face to face with a toutouwai Panasonic G9 Lumix 100-400 Nikon P950 Huia (extinct) Wikipedia Huia ‘A Lost Harmony’ Huia video link found on this page Charcoal work (on IG) Cole LaBounty McNair Making a Time capsule ===== How to reach Hannah Shand ===== Instagram - @hannahshandart HannahShandart.com ===== How to reach Mike Hendley ===== MikeHendley.com  Instagram @Mike_Hendley  Twitter @MikeHendley Show notes at DrawingInspiration.fm ===== Support the Podcast ===== Support "Drawing Connections" on Substack Buy Me a Paintbrush if you like the show or my work Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Share the podcast with friends and family Podcast theme music is “Acid Jazz” By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/