NYC-born and -based with a global lens. Her practice moves fluidly between traditional and digital media, cutting across diverse art verticals; every medium is a letter in her creative alphabet. She’s fluent in English, Chinese, and Turkish, and is currently learning French.
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Mediums: Watercolor; Chinese Watercolor; Gouache; Oil Painting; Acrylic; Digital Art; Ebru (Marbling); Calligraphy; Tezhip (Illumination); Ceramic Art / Pottery; Mosaic Art; Embroidery; Beaded Jewelry; Pop-Up Artistry, Sculpturing
Subjects: Portrait; Gesture; Animal Drawing; Still Life; Environment & Perspective; Fashion Drawing; Brush Pen; Fan Art.
Services (Production): Character Design; Children’s Book Illustration; Turnaround(s); Animation; Stop Motion; Custom Puppets; Mural; Logo Design; Promotional; Puppetwood Comedy.
Projects & Challenges: Inktober; 100 Heads; 100 Days of Sketching 2020; 100 Days of Sketching 2021, DTIYS; Continuous Line; Ten Hundred Shape; Young Talents Project; Optical Illusion; Project: Mona Lisa; Ottoman Miniatures; Wallpaper Design; Silk Road; Poet Sezai Karakoç; Light in Their Hearts; Stitch2Create; #anisaozalp1k
Places: Istanbul; Paris; Staten Island; North Macedonia; Taipei & Chinese; Umrah Pilgrimage; Secaucus Swimming; Vocational School.
Fashion / Handmade (wearables & objects): Fashion Clothing Design; Customized Sneakers; Beaded Jewelry; Embroidery; Cross-Stitch (UNIF Bag); Crochet; Mosaic Art; Doll Making; Outdoor Art Painting; Rainbow Loom; Felt Toys; Perler Beads; Handmade (article).
Training & Courses (schools, mentors, classes): Anima Okul; Animation Mentor; Kesh Drawing Camp; Education in Art (Article); Academy of Art; Bob Ross; MED’s Map; Asuman Dokuzlu; Gültekin Rüzgar; Song Binghui (宋炳慧); Elif Aydın; CorelDRAW; Adobe Works
Extras (studies, utilities, misc.): Human Anatomy Drawing; Perspective Drawing; Environment Drawing; Still Life Drawing; Stickers; Reviews; Fun Map; Puzzle; Kahveji; Scuba Diving; Sports & Music; Announcements; Promotional; Mural; Greeting Card, Fine Art (Article)
Additional Platforms / Profiles: BlueSky; Google Business; Autodesk; Domestika; Sketchfab; Adobe Stock, Artorful
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“Anisa Ozalp’s work is a rare fusion of traditional artisan mastery and contemporary digital production. Rather than simply moving between old and new methods, she uses each to strengthen the other: digital tools bring precision, planning, and efficiency, while traditional materials preserve tactility and cultural depth.
Her knowledge of ancient art practices reflects this balance, combining Eastern brushwork traditions such as Tezhip and Chinese watercolor with a modern sensibility.
In more complex projects, such as her Ottoman Miniatures, she begins digitally in Procreate, resolving composition, color, and ornamental details before transferring the design onto physical paper for hand painting.
As a Western-born artist shaped by training in the East, she occupies a distinctive cultural position. She carries the technical knowledge of Eastern, Middle Eastern, and Western visual traditions, yet approaches them with the freedom of an innovator rather than the limits of a single inherited rulebook.
She is not only a painter, but also her own animator, crafter, calligrapher, marketer, and digital producer. Her ability to move from 3D character rigging to Chinese brushwork, from handmade objects to digital, gives her rare creative sovereignty. She is difficult to categorize because her practice is not confined to one medium, culture, or production system; it is a self-directed workshop where digital precision and handmade refinement continuously inform one another.”