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.
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Watercolour - Key Skills
Jason’s Courses
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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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8 spaces available
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Key Drawing Skills for Beginners - Landscapes
Thu, 4 Sep 2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Landscape is one of the most fun areas of drawing because it allows you to be more free and experimental in your mark making than other areas of drawing such as still life...
£95
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3 spaces available
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Painting Beaches Like a Pro in Watercolour
Wed, 9 Jul 2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Ever wanted to be able to paint beach scenes with more flair and panache? Or to capture the shapes and rhythms within the sand? How about the sheen of water on sand reflecting...
£95
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4 spaces available
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Dramatic Skies in Watercolour
Thu, 13 Mar 2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
A dramatic sky can transform a watercolour landscape or seascape, changing a somewhat bland scene into something that's truly eye catching. Jason Skill, our watercolour expert, will share a whole host of exciting...
£95
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Painting Trees in Watercolour for Beginners
Fri, 2 May 2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Trees can be an tricky subject to tackle, especially if you're relatively inexperienced. Join Jason and get to grips with how to paint trees effectively with watercolour. Learn techniques that can push your...
£95
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8 spaces available
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Painting Bright Sun-lit Scenes Using Watercolour and Gouache
Sun, 22 Jun 2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
John Singer Sargent understood better than any other watercolour artists of his age how to paint bright sunlight. His watercolours sing with heat and intense, sparkling sunlight. This was partly done though combining...
£95
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9 spaces available
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Moving away from realism- flowers
Fri, 4 Apr 2025
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
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Drawing - Photo-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
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5 spaces available