Specialty Artist - MAC

Tasks

• Use materials such as pens and ink, watercolors, charcoal, oil, or computer software to create artwork.

• Integrate and develop visual elements, such as line, space, mass, color, and perspective, to produce desired effects, such as the illustration of ideas, emotions, or moods.

• Confer with clients, editors, writers, art directors, and other interested parties regarding the nature and content of artwork to be produced.

• Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities.

• Market artwork through brochures, mailings, or Web sites.

• Study different techniques to learn how to apply them to artistic endeavors.

• Monitor events, trends, and other circumstances, research specific subject areas, attend art exhibitions, and read art publications to develop ideas and keep current on art world activities.

• Photograph objects, places, or scenes for reference material.

• Model substances such as clay or wax, using fingers and small hand tools to form objects.

• Create sculptures, statues, and other three-dimensional artwork by using abrasives and tools to shape, carve, and fabricate materials such as clay, stone, wood, or metal.

• Set up exhibitions of artwork for display or sale.

• Render drawings, illustrations, and sketches of buildings, manufactured products, or models, working from sketches, blueprints, memory, models, or reference materials.

• Shade and fill in sketch outlines and backgrounds, using a variety of media such as water colors, markers, and transparent washes, labeling designated colors when necessary.

• Frame and mat artwork for display or sale.

• Submit artwork to shows or galleries.

• Submit preliminary or finished artwork or project plans to clients for approval, incorporating changes as necessary.

• Study styles, techniques, colors, textures, and materials used in works undergoing restoration to ensure consistency during the restoration process.

• Collaborate with engineers, mechanics, and other technical experts as necessary to build and install creations.

• Cut, bend, laminate, arrange, and fasten individual or mixed raw and manufactured materials and products to form works of art.

• Provide entertainment at special events by performing activities such as drawing cartoons.

• Develop project budgets for approval, estimating time lines and material costs.

• Create and prepare sketches and model drawings of cartoon characters, providing details from memory, live models, manufactured products, or reference materials.

• Create finished art work as decoration, or to elucidate or substitute for spoken or written messages.

• Create sketches, profiles, or likenesses of posed subjects or photographs, using any combination of freehand drawing, mechanical assembly kits, and computer imaging.

• Trace drawings onto clear acetate for painting or coloring, or trace them with ink to make final copies.

• Apply solvents and cleaning agents to clean surfaces of paintings, and to remove accretions, discolorations, and deteriorated varnish.

• Collaborate with writers who create ideas, stories, or captions that are combined with artists' work.

• Brush or spray protective or decorative finishes on completed background panels, informational legends, exhibit accessories, or finished paintings.

• Render sequential drawings that can be turned into animated films or advertisements.

• Teach artistic techniques to children or adults.

• Create graphics, illustrations, and three-dimensional models to be used in research or in teaching, such as in demonstrating anatomy, pathology, or surgical procedures.

• Examine and test paintings in need of restoration or cleaning to determine techniques and materials to be used.

Skills

• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

• Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Knowledge

• Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

• Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

• Production and Processing - Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

• Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

• Design - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

• Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

• Education and Training - Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

• English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

• Fine Arts - Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

• Communications and Media - Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.