Jason Skill
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.
– Peter
Watercolour - Key Skills
Jason’s Courses

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 & BookAll Levels
8 spaces available
NEW

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 & BookAll Levels
8 spaces available
NEW

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
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10 spaces available
NEW

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 & BookAll Levels
8 spaces available
NEW

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
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3 spaces available
NEW

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
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7 spaces available
NEW

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 & BookAll Levels
2 spaces available