Painters and Illustrators

Paint or draw subject material to produce original artwork or illustrations, using watercolors, oils, acrylics, tempera, or other paint mediums.

Job Task

• Paints scenic backgrounds, murals, and portraiture for motion picture and television production sets, glass artworks, and exhibits.
• Etches, carves, paints, or draws artwork on material, such as stone, glass, canvas, wood, and linoleum.
• Develops drawings, paintings, diagrams, and models of medical or biological subjects for use in publications, exhibits, consultations, research, and teaching.
• Studies style, techniques, colors, textures, and materials used by artist to maintain consistency in reconstruction or retouching procedures.
• Removes painting from frame or paint layer from canvas to restore artwork, following specified technique and equipment.
• Examines surfaces of paintings and proofs of artwork, using magnifying device, to determine method of restoration or needed corrections.
• Installs finished stained glass in window or door frame.
• Assembles, leads, and solders finished glass to fabricate stained glass article.
• Applies select solvents and cleaning agents to clean surface of painting and remove accretions, discolorations, and deteriorated varnish.
• Performs tests to determine factors, such as age, structure, pigment stability, and probable reaction to various cleaning agents and solvents.
• Confers with professional personnel or client to discuss objectives of artwork, develop illustration ideas, and theme to be portrayed.
• Brushes or sprays protective or decorative finish on completed background panels, informational legends, exhibit accessories, or finished painting.
• Integrates and develops visual elements, such as line, space, mass, color, and perspective to produce desired effect.
• Renders drawings, illustrations, and sketches of buildings, manufactured products, or models, working from sketches, blueprints, memory, or reference materials.

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