The phrase "a skillful painter" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who has a high level of ability or talent in painting.
Example: "The art gallery featured a collection of works by a skillful painter whose techniques captivated the audience."
Alternatives: "an accomplished painter" or "a talented painter."
A skillful painter and canny conceptualist, Ms. Feinstein used to toy with conventions of abstraction, as when, to subversively feminist effect, she extrapolated the pattern of a dish towel glued to canvas into a Modernist grid.
As a therapeutic technique, Bartok, a skillful painter and the author of numerous children's books, began to construct a memory palace for herself, a series of paintings (reproduced in the book) evoking the mental landscape of her childhood, and to write this story.
Like many a meteoric fiction writer, Fischl used up his strongest stories early on, even as he became a more skillful painter.
Recording his death, the notary of Bruges described him as "the most skillful painter in the whole of Christendom".
Jan van Goyen, Gerrit Berckheyde, Jan van der Heyden, Jacob van Ruisdael and other preternaturally skillful painters created vividly realistic yet idyllic images that made their cities seem like parcels of heaven on earth.
The display of 48 paintings, 22 maps and assorted atlases and printed books includes works by Jan van Goyen, Gerrit Berckheyde, Jan van der Heyden, Jacob van Ruisdael and other preternaturally skillful painters of intensely realistic yet idyllic images of cities and towns viewed from far and near.
(Rosenberg) WAYNE THIEBAUD: 'THE FIGURE' While best known for his Pop-realist paintings of food products, Mr. Thiebaud has also been a skillful and innovative figure painter, as this fine show of paintings and drawings dating from 1963 to 1992 demonstrates.
With a skillful but not too fussy realist touch, this Scottish painter creates small, old masterish pictures of laves of bread.
Perry is a skillful communicator.
"Matt is a skillful editor.
