About the Artist:  Award winning Artist, Anne Steinman is a native of New Orleans and now resides in Revere, Massachusetts.  Her artistic style consists of a harmonious blend of both Western and Oriental techniques and ranges from realism to impressionistic expression.   Anne’s artwork conveys her deep love and passion for nature, and her Jewish heritage.  She specializes in creating beautiful botanical illustrations, wildlife and landscape paintings, Ketubahs and Judaic Artwork, Chinese brush paintings (or Sumi-e), and custom pet and people,  portraits from photos. 

Anne’s painting “Autumn Flight” recently won first place at Topsfield Fair’s 2009 Professional Watercolor Show.  Her stunning painting depicts a pair of birds flying together surrounded by a vibrant foliage background. Anne utilized both traditional brushstrokes and non-traditional methods of applying paint to produce this work of art.  She created brilliant autumn colors by strategically pouring only the three primary colors (red, yellow, blue) onto wet watercolor paper after applying removable masking fluid to preserve the white of the paper for the birds and ripples of water.  Anne employed the same award winning technique in her production of “Touch of Love”, an original watercolor painting of two birds wading in shallow water, and has donated this painting to the 6^th Annual Refrigerator Art Auction, benefiting the International School of Louisiana.  In addition, Anne has donated a reproduction of one of her Chinese Brush Paintings, entitled “Playful Panda".

Anne has taught various drawing and painting classes at North Shore Community College, Brookline Arts Center, Arlington Center for the Arts, and Saugus Senior Center.  in 2010, thanks to a grant form the Chelsea LCC, supported by Mass LCC, Anne Steinman is offering a Watercolor and Drawing Class at the Chelsea Senior Center.  This program is supported in part from a grant from the Chelsea Local Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.   If you are interested in finding out how to apply for a Mass LCC Grant to have Anne do an art workshop that will benefit your community click here.