PAINTER AND ILLUSTRATORS

Job Definition:

• Painters and related workers prepare surfaces of buildings and other structures for painting, apply protective and decorative coats of paint or similar materials, or cover interior walls and ceilings of buildings with wallpaper or other finishes.

Job Description:

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

Duties and Tasks:

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

Activities:

• Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.

Abilities:

• 1) Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
• 2) Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
• 3) Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
• 4) Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
• 5) Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Knowledge

• Fine Arts — Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
• Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.