This image shows Suzan’s writing in black pen on white paper reading, “I like wine, I like baking, I like Katy Perry, I like pets, I like jellyfish, I hate snakes, I eat warm worms color, I am shark”

Suzan Ozkul

Suzy’s Poem Art, ink on paper

I am a good artist making pictures and words. My art is wonderful, great, and loveable. I enjoy making wonderful paintings, portraits and words. I’ve been doing art for a long time and I love it.

I have a lot of love in my heart.

 
This image shows three jellyfish drawn with black marker, floating within blue inked saturations. This drawing on paper has blue tones and water-ink visuals through mixing.

Blue Jellyfish, blue ink, black marker, and water on paper

 
 
This is a drawing made with blue ink and black marker on paper. This drawing has blue tones and water-ink visuals and shows 3 cylinder shapes

Worms, blue ink, black marker, and water on paper

It’s good to make things I like to make. Art is hopeful and wonderful to learn about new things and I practice very well.

 
Suzan’s drawing of three large, long, curved snakes, drawn with colorful lines in pencil crayons. The snakes have orange faces and a mix of green, blue, grey, black, red and yellow stripes

SNAKES, coloured pencil on paper

"SNAKE" spelt out in coloured letters: S in pink, N in magenta, A in orange, K in pink, E in magenta.

SNAKES, coloured pencil on paper

I like animals and I like to do art about people. I like making art about cakes and muffins.

 
 
a drawing of Katy Perry made with pencil crayons on paper. Katy Perry is wearing high-heeled shoes, a red and orange dress and has shoulder-length black hair

Katy Perry, coloured pencil on paper

 
 
This image shows a pencil drawing on paper of Suzan’s dad. Suzan’s dad is wearing glasses, long pants and a long-sleeved shirt that is shaded in grey. Next to the drawing of Suzan’s dad is a story typed by Suzan

Portrait Story About Dad, coloured pencil on paper

“My story about my father named Ferdi Ozkul. He from Turkey Istanbul live With parents. He got 2 sisters. He have good life be Mature Peaceful, Good Attitude cooking Chef. He got 2 daughters, he was good father be possible, Treat nice he work very hard, he is my star I call him butterfly, he is one of my heroes and is lucky. He teaches me how to cook. I love recipes.”

 
Suzan’s drawing shows symbols that remind her of her mother’s 77th birthday. Included in this drawing is a lemon square cake, a green circle with the number 77, a blue Dairy Queen cake, a black bunny and an orange change purse.

Gale’s Birthday, coloured pencil on paper

 

I love cooking and baking. I love to learn about cooking, sauces, and pies. I like to make art with my family about the things I like to do, like cooking and cleaning.

 
This drawing on paper is made with pencil and pink pencil crayon. This drawing shows Suzan’s design and memory of the pink champagne and wedding dress.

The Pink Champaign Wedding Dress (drawing), coloured pencil on paper

This painting is inspired by Suzan’s memory drawing of the pink champagne and wedding dress. This painting has a speckled purple background and nine different sized rectangular shapes that are blue, green, grey, light pink, red and black.

The Pink Champaign Wedding Dress (painting), acrylic on canvas

 
 
Suzan uses greens, brown, pink, greys and yellow in the background and with the letters in the text that reads, “Girls, Paris, Working Dogs, Smell, Lover. Princess, lover, lover, smart, care her.

Title Page for Paris and Princess, coloured pencil on paper

This drawing shows Suzan, a dog named Paris, and a cat named Princess in stylized colorful stripes. Suzan is wearing pink and green against tones of brown and orange. Paris against a light green background. Princess against a purple background.

Paris and Princess, coloured pencil on paper

 
The cake has layers and colors of pinks, blue, orange, green, and blue with outlined circles in the center, along with several dotted marks made light blue marker. There are four candles and traces of drawn marks made on the cake

Crystal Cake, acrylic on canvas

 
 
a light grey background and a large blue and yellow cake. The cake is textured with brush marks that show different directions and colour mixing and is overlayed with details of light blue marker specs and a line

007 Cake Recipe, acrylic on canvas

image of text in all caps: "PINK CHAMPAGNE VODKA SAUCE CAKE"; each letter is in a different bright colour, roughly coloured into ink outlines

PINK CHAMPAGNE VODKA SAUCE CAKE, ink and crayon on paper

 
 
image of text in all caps "RASPBERRY STRAWBERRY MAPLE SYRUP CUPCAKE"; each letter is in a different bright colour, roughly coloured into ink outlines

RASPBERRY STRAWBERRY MAPLE SYRUP CUPCAKE, ink and crayon on paper

 
 
image of text in all caps "SOUR VODKA CINNAMON CUP CAKES"; each letter is in a different bright colour, roughly coloured into ink outlines

SOUR VODKA CINNAMON CUP CAKES, ink and crayon on paper

image of text in all caps "COFFEE CHAMPAGNE MAPLE SPICE CAKE"; each letter is in a different bright colour, roughly coloured into ink outlines

COFFEE CHAMPAGNE MAPLE SPICE CAKE, ink and crayon on paper

 
 
image of text in all caps "WINE HONEY FRESH VANILLA; RASPBERRY STRAWBERRY MAPLE SYRUP CUPCAKE; HAZELNUT COFFEE SOUR HONEY CAKE; HONEY COFFEE VODKA CAKE"; each letter is in a different bright colour, roughly coloured into ink outlines

Recipe Collage, ink and crayon on paper

WINE HONEY FRESH VANILLA;

RASPBERRY STRAWBERRY MAPLE SYRUP CUPCAKE;

HAZELNUT COFFEE SOUR HONEY CAKE;

HONEY COFFEE VODKA CAKE

image of text in all caps "LEMON HONEY VODKA TART" ; each letter is in a different bright colour, roughly coloured into ink outlines

LEMON HONEY VODKA TART, ink and crayon on paper

 

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