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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Create original artwork using any of a wide variety of media and techniques. | Use materials such as pens and ink, watercolors, charcoal, oil, or computer software to create artwork. | |||
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Integrate and develop visual elements, such as line, space, mass, color, and perspective, in order to produce desired effects such as the illustration of ideas, emotions, or moods. | ||||
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Confer with clients, editors, writers, art directors, and other interested parties regarding the nature and content of artwork to be produced. | ||||
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Submit preliminary or finished artwork or project plans to clients for approval, incorporating changes as necessary. | ||||
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Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities. | ||||
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Create finished art work as decoration, or to elucidate or substitute for spoken or written messages. | ||||
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Cut, bend, laminate, arrange, and fasten individual or mixed raw and manufactured materials and products to form works of art. | ||||
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Monitor events, trends, and other circumstances, research specific subject areas, attend art exhibitions, and read art publications in order to develop ideas and keep current on art world activities. | ||||
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Study different techniques to learn how to apply them to artistic endeavors. | ||||
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Render drawings, illustrations, and sketches of buildings, manufactured products, or models, working from sketches, blueprints, memory, models, or reference materials. | ||||
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Create sketches, profiles, or likenesses of posed subjects or photographs, using any combination of freehand drawing, mechanical assembly kits, and computer imaging. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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Study styles, techniques, colors, textures, and materials used in works undergoing restoration to ensure consistency during the restoration process. | ||||
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Develop project budgets for approval, estimating time lines and material costs. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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Collaborate with engineers, mechanics, and other technical experts as necessary to build and install creations. | ||||
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Create and prepare sketches and model drawings of cartoon characters, providing details from memory, live models, manufactured products, or reference materials. | ||||
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Examine and test paintings in need of restoration or cleaning to determine techniques and materials to be used. | ||||
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Create graphics, illustrations, and three-dimensional models to be used in research or in teaching, such as in demonstrating anatomy, pathology, or surgical procedures. | ||||
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Brush or spray protective or decorative finishes on completed background panels, informational legends, exhibit accessories, or finished paintings. | ||||
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Trace drawings onto clear acetate for painting or coloring, or trace them with ink to make final copies. | ||||
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Apply solvents and cleaning agents to clean surfaces of paintings, and to remove accretions, discolorations, and deteriorated varnish. | ||||
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Model substances such as clay or wax, using fingers and small hand tools to form objects. | ||||
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Collaborate with writers who create ideas, stories, or captions that are combined with artists' work. | ||||
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Provide entertainment at special events by performing activities such as drawing cartoons. | ||||
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Render sequential drawings that can be turned into animated films or advertisements. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Fine Artists, Painters and Sculptors
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Fine Arts | Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture. | |||
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Design | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. | |||
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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. | |||
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Sales and Marketing | Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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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. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. | |||
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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. | |||
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Economics and Accounting | Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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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. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Operations Analysis | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
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. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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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). | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
3D Artist | |||
Animated Cartoons Painter | |||
Animated Cartoons Painter Apprentice | |||
Apprentice, Painter, Landscape | |||
Apprentice, Painter, Statuary | |||
Art Conservator | |||
Art Restorer | |||
Art Teacher | |||
Artist | |||
Artist Blacksmith | |||
Arts Instructor | |||
Automotive Artist | |||
Beaded Jewelry Artist | |||
Book Illustrator | |||
Card Painter | |||
Caricature Artist | |||
Cartoon Artist | |||
Cartoonist | |||
Clay Artist | |||
Color Artist | |||
Comic Artist | |||
Comic Book Artist | |||
Comic Book Designer | |||
Comic Illustrator | |||
Commercial Artist | |||
Commercial Illustrator | |||
Commercial Retoucher | |||
Community-Based Public Artist | |||
Concrete Sculptor | |||
Courtroom Sketch Artist | |||
Craft Artist | |||
Crayon Painter | |||
Custom Motorcycle Painter | |||
Delineator | |||
Editorial Cartoonist | |||
Exhibit Artist | |||
Fashion Artist | |||
Fashion Illustrator | |||
Fiber Artist | |||
Fine Artist | |||
Forensic Artist | |||
Free Lance Artist | |||
Fresco Artist | |||
Glass Artist | |||
Histological Illustrator | |||
Ice Sculptor | |||
Illustrator | |||
Kiln Formed Glass Artist | |||
Landscape Artist | |||
Landscape Painter | |||
Manga Artist | |||
Medical Artist | |||
Medical Illustrator | |||
Model Maker | |||
Motion Pictures Cartoonist | |||
Multimedia Artist | |||
Mural Artist | |||
Mural Painter | |||
Muralist | |||
Newspaper Illustrator | |||
Non-Representational Metal Sculptor | |||
Oil Painter | |||
Painter | |||
Painter Apprentice | |||
Paintings Conservator | |||
Paintings Restorer | |||
Pattern Illustrator | |||
Picture Framer | |||
Picture Painter | |||
Plasma Graphic Artist | |||
Police Artist | |||
Police Sketch Artist | |||
Political Cartoonist | |||
Portrait Artist | |||
Portrait Painter | |||
Printmaker | |||
Production Illustrator | |||
Quick Sketch Artist | |||
Reproduction Artist | |||
Restoration Artist | |||
Sacred Art Artist | |||
Scene Painter | |||
Scenic Artist | |||
Scientific Artist | |||
Scientific Illustrator | |||
Sculptor | |||
Set Illustrator | |||
Silhouette Artist | |||
Sketch Artist | |||
Sports Cartoonist | |||
Stained Glass Artist | |||
Stained Glass Painter | |||
Statuary Painter | |||
Statue Maker | |||
Suspect Artist | |||
Tattoo Designer | |||
Technical Illustrator | |||
Texture Artist | |||
Tinsmith | |||
Visual Artist | |||
Water Colorist | |||
Watercolor Artist | |||
Wildlife Artist | |||
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