Jason Skill

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Jason Skill is a watercolour painter and teacher with over thirty years of experience inspiring and teaching adults how to paint with watercolour. Jason is based in the North East and is known particularly for his seascapes. He is skilled in demonstrating and explaining a multitude of methods and approaches and approaches to this versatile medium.

He has also taught on several painting/ sketching holidays in Italy and the UK as well as demonstrating for several museums explaining to the public the painting approaches of the old masters. In the last few years he has branched out into online teaching creating a video education site called studio and has become one of SAA’s [Society of All Artists] demonstrators.

“It was excellent, I’m just starting to paint and Jason answered all my questions and puzzles.”

– Peter
Watercolour - Key Skills

Jason’s Courses

Moving away from realism- flowers

Moving away from realism- flowers

Fri, 15 May 2026

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Artists including Shirley Travenor, Paul Riley and Anne Blockley have forged new ways of painting flowers in the last thirty years, with a confident shift from botanical illustration to more impressionistic abstract renderings....

£95

Info & Book

All Levels

8 spaces available

NEW

Getting to Grips with Garden Painting

Getting to Grips with Garden Painting

Thu, 9 Jul 2026

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Capture the beauty of the garden in paint - with clarity, confidence, and creativity. We’re a nation of garden lovers so it’s no surprise that many of us feel the urge to paint...

£95

Info & Book

All Levels

8 spaces available

NEW

Glorious Gouache: A Perfect Start to Painting

Glorious Gouache: A Perfect Start to Painting

Thu, 19 Nov 2026

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

An accessible, forgiving, and wonderfully versatile painting workshop If you've ever wanted to start painting but didn’t know where to begin - this is the workshop for you. Gouache (say it “gwash”) is...

£95

Info & Book

All Levels

10 spaces available

NEW

Graphite: The Hot New Medium

Graphite: The Hot New Medium

Thu, 10 Sep 2026

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Beyond pencils - discover the expressive power of modern graphite. Once limited to humble pencils and thick sticks, graphite has undergone a creative revolution. Today, it’s available in an exciting range of forms...

£95

Info & Book

All Levels

8 spaces available

NEW

Drawing for the Terrified

Drawing for the Terrified

Fri, 13 Mar 2026

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Absolutely no experience necessary - just a willingness to try! Think you "can’t draw"? This workshop is here to prove you wrong- gently, supportively, and with plenty of laughter along the way. 'Drawing...

£95

Info & Book

Novice

3 spaces available

NEW

Painting Snow Effectively

Painting Snow Effectively

Sat, 15 Nov 2025

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Don't miss this chance to lift your snow painting skills to another level with tutor Jason Skill. When Jason Skill was in his late teens he painted snow falling on his back garden...

£95

Info & Book

All Levels

7 spaces available

NEW

Drawing Realistic Animals

Drawing Realistic Animals

Wed, 22 Oct 2025

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Join artist, Jason Skill, for this workshop exploring some of the drawing techniques used by artists to create highly realistic drawing of animals. It's no surprise that many art books on on bookshelves...

£95

Info & Book

All Levels

2 spaces available

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