Anna Zadorozhnaya is a watercolour artist, currently based in Hannover, Germany. Anna is Schmincke & da Vinci official ambassador, first in history of these well-known brands. Anna has a bachelor degree in journalistic and MA in Art from Oxford Brookes University, she is self-taught from scratch artist.

Anna is a watercolour teacher (3000+ students and multiple courses online and offline), illustrator (covers for all Schmincke super-granulating watercolour and Naturals box paints series, different illustrating projects), she released her own set of brushes (Signature Set by Anna Zadorozhnaya) and personal Schmincke dot-card. Anna is also an author of the book, dedicated to painting landscapes in watercolour, published in 2023 on German ("Landschaften Aquarellieren”), she shares her watercolour paintings and videos of the process on her Instagram page @draw_better.

I prove by my example: painting is a skill that can learn anyone. It doesn't depend much on talent: matters  the amount of time, efforts and patience that you invest in the process of painting. And love, of course.

As a tutor I pay attention to the logical aspects of creating paintings, and if you would use and apply the criteria of tonal values, different types of contrasts, coloristic schemes, rules of composition, that I teach, you will definitely have a great result. My main medium, - watercolour, which I deeply love - stays the same 10+ years, and I'm truly an expert exactly in watercolour painting.