Drawing

Sujal Manohar and Osiris Jaimes-Azmitia make-up the Drawing Team at Imagine Art. This skill is applicable to every facet of art, especially when brainstorming and planning the next project. Drawing something everyday is the best way to improve skills, even if all that someone does is doodle.

Sujal Manohar Osiris Jaimes-Azmitia

Sujal Manohar

“I love creating art for art’s sake, but I am also aware of its tremendous potential to foster empathy and awareness about societal issues.” Sujal

From animals to landscapes, Sujal Manohar uses detailed lines and vibrant colors to capture her subjects. Though recognized for a mostly realistic style, she also creates graffiti-style doodles to represent emotions and abstract ideas. She uses the arts to de-stigmatize health conditions such as mental illnesses. To promote a larger message, she often includes hidden layers of meaning and symbolism in her art.

Hawaii Street

You can’t help but notice the effective use of perspective and shadow that help create depth and the illusion of reality.

While organization and flexibility are personality traits that appear to be conflicting, Sujal finds them vital to creating lesson plans and communicating with team members. She likes having the flexibility to adapt to unpredictable situations.

“One of the artists in our team was struggling to use the Zoom platform, and we weren’t sure if he was able to follow the lesson. We tried to help him, but we couldn’t hear his audio or communicate with him directly. At the end of class, however, he held up a detailed drawing of a still life along with the rest of our group! It was a beautiful moment that showed that art is a language of its own.”

Rainbow Music Collage

This piece exemplifies Sujal’s “detailed lines and vibrant colors”. Her vivid imagination runs wild with intricate details.

One of Sujal’s favorite quotes is by Thoreau, “The universe is wider than our views of it.” These words apply nicely to her students at Imagine Art. She hopes to instill the importance of being open-minded when trying new things, both inside and outside of the art world.

During her undergraduate years, she spent time teaching art to pediatric patients, leading art gallery tours for adults with Alzheimer’s Disease, and creating her own artwork advocating for mental health. When she heard Imagine Art was hiring artists-in-residence, it seemed like a perfect fit because the organization aligned with her interests: utilizing the arts to serve and empower others. This work has felt incredibly meaningful to her.

She hopes that artists can further develop their unique styles and create work that they love.

Graffiti lettering and doodling is an Artist Opportunity she would like to explore. She designed an Opportunity around her experience working in an art museum.

Button art by Sujal Manohar.

Osiris Jaimes-Azmitia

Osiris Jaimes-Azmitia’s inspiration comes from a desire to create art pieces that both the young and old can enjoy. Her goal is to become a comic artist or a storyboard artist in a small or large company. She admits to having lots of enthusiasm and energy, but if needed Osiris can slow down and listen to someone in need.

Clean Up Rose Hands

Traditional ink on paper.

For example, one of her students was getting frustrated during a Zoom class presentation. Osiris could tell that the lesson was probably moving too fast for that student. Osiris asked for a pause so that the class take a deep breath and begin moving at a slower pace. This allowed the student to calm down. Once reassured that no-one else was frustrated, Osiris took time to speak more slowly and emphasize the more important points so everybody got it. The student felt better, more at ease, and began participating again.

Rose in Spring Demo

The rose is one of Osiris’ favorite subjects, whether by traditional mediums or, in this case, rendered digitally.

Osiris finds it interesting that her students are surprised by how much they can do when given the opportunity to rise to the occasion.

On why she became an AmeriCorps teacher at Imagine Art, “Honestly, I was asked by the other teachers and wanted to challenge myself.”

A lesson in origami would be her choice for an artist’s opportunity.

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Talk about dramatic! Rolling waves of fire or a really intense sunset.