Jason Skill (Watercolour)
Very experienced and frequently-mentioned north east tutor
Has taught since 1990 from beginners to advanced across many media, including a whole decade full-time for for Newcastle City Learning
Highly experienced demonstrator for galleries, museums and for major art material companies at trade fairs, for many art clubs and associations.
Has run several painting holidays in the UK with Higham Tutor Ben Haslam, and they have been known collectively as AKA The WATERCOLOURMEN for TV purposes - see: http://www.tynedalefineartproducts.co.uk/tv-show/
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JASON'S WORK
FULLY BOOKED: PAINT LIKE AN IMPRESSIONIST WITH WATERCOLOUR
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomMany watercolour painters want to paint impressionistically. Creating colourful, light touch paintings that feel spontaneous and full of life. This course provides an opportunity to look at how Impressionism might be applied to watercolour painting, prompting you to explore cleaner, brighter, colour use in conjunction with more lively and varied brush work. Impressionist watercolours strip
FULLY BOOKED: FUN WITH ABSTRACTION!
More and more painters are tempted by Abstraction. Some add elements in to modernise their own art. Others just want to have fun and express themselves in a non-realistic way, embracing the freedom. On this joyous painting course, explore colour combinations, compatible shapes, the balance of busy and empty and which compositional formats work most
FULLY BOOKED: LOOSENING UP WITH WATERCOLOUR
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomSometimes, artists want to move away from tight, realistic painting towards more relaxed, expressive ways of handling Watercolour. Escape rigid realism to become more playful with your painting. Dare to spatter, dribble, let pigment do the talking, embrace the happy accident and make your brush work more expressive and less fiddly. Share in the joyful,
FULLY BOOKED: BREAKING THE RULES OF WATERCOLOUR
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomSuitable for everyone who wishes to stretch their Watercolour ability to achieve some spectacular results. Be shown how to represent water in nature to convey energy, life and dynamism. Enjoy the time to try fully the techniques yourself, going on to develop your own work in several different contexts including beach scenes with rocks. Jason
LANDSCAPE DRAWING FOR BEGINNERS
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomMany people dream of sitting in the landscape and sketching with some skill. This course will help to demystify the journey from framing a view to understanding line and perspective, light and colour. Jason will teach you how to make a relatively small range of simple yet versatile marks, then begin to explore where and
PAINTING ROCKS AND MOUNTAINS
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomIf you are shown a variety of ways to draw and paint pebbles it becomes easier to paint boulders. If you learn how to make up jagged rocks from construction models, then it's a small step to painting mountains using a blend of reference and imagination. The right knowledge and skills help you build up
PAINTING AND DRAWING SUMMER SCHOOL
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomA week of workshops, lectures and demonstrations led by four of our tutors, offering a broad mix of inspiration, approaches, techniques and styles intended to refresh and expand your painting and drawing skills. Bring your favourite media and equipment, use our beautiful setting, and devote some quality time to developing your creative practice. Residential: £640
MOVING AWAY FROM REALISM WITH STILL LIFE
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomAs the title suggests we will be looking at ways to gently move your art from strict copy work into more creative territory. Why still life? Well, still life is an area of art where artists can be more experimental, because they can play more easily with the components. If you don’t like something where
DRAWING THE FIGURE WITHOUT A MODEL
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomIf you have ever wanted to be able to draw figures without always having to rely on reference material then this course is a great introduction. Jason Skill, your tutor, taught life drawing for many years and found that basic construction drawing was the key component that helped students become more confident and capable at
FULLY BOOKED: SKETCHBOOK SKILLS
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United KingdomThe students will be shown a series key sketching skills and explore ideas working first from photographs and then from life working around the grounds of Higham Hall. The aim is to become more confident and skilful at sketching, creating visual mementos within your sketch book of your time at Higham Hall, weather permitting. Jason