Ink on map paper

Ink on map paper

The Best Years of Our Lives, on Facebook
Tamarind King once decided to draw her entire Facebook feed on a paper towel roll. She mused: “Most of us don’t really read our Facebook feed–we just skim it for the parts that catch our eye. This project made me have to read every single word, and it’s amazing how much detail I’ve missed when just skimming casually.”

Major: Earth Systems
Year: Coterminal Senior

Mattias Lanas is an Earth Systems major with interests in nature illustration and detail-oriented fine art. This botanical series is part of a project to document some of the common flora found at Stanford Sierra Camp, where Mattias spent this past summer working as the art instructor. He hopes to one day launch his passions for natural science and fine art into a career.

Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja miniata)
This genus is known for its hemiparasiticism: it often taps into the roots of grasses. The red parts are actually not petals, but sepals (modified leaves). The true flower is yellow and tube-like, protruding out of some of the sepal clusters.

Crimson Columbine (Aquilegia formosa)
A perennial native to the Western United States, it has a history of multiple uses by Native Americans as medicine, decoration, and food. Aquilegia comes from the Latin aquil, meaning eagle, and formosa means beautiful.

Sierra Bog Orchid (Platanthera dilatata)
As its name suggests, this orchid grows in boggy meadows and generally moist areas in the Sierras. The small white flowers on its stalk produce a fragrant, sweet perfume that can be smelled from a fair distanceaway. The plant’s range extends north all the way to Alaska, and it is especially common in the mountainous regions of the Pacific Northwest.

Year: Sophomore

Lauren is an illustrator with aspirations to write graphic novels and do tattoo art, and she likes to draw creepy monsters. The monster series is a calendar in-the-making in which each monster corresponds with a month.

Ink and acrylic.

"March"

"August"

"April"

"November"

"January"

Charcoal and sumi ink

Charcoal

About FLATLAND: collaboration workshop

A collaborative exercise that utilizes collective-memory to reconstruct a still life. This is meant to reexamine memory within the context of seeing and creating while introducing a three-dimensional facet to drawing.

Students created a largestill life and spent 20 to 30 minutes collectively observing the pile, actively memorizing. The pile was then completely covered with paper, and students drew on that paper, reconstructing what they remembered about the objects below the paper.

-Reed Anderson

Conté

Ink and acrylic.