Painter (Visual Arts)

Description

Conceives and creates visual art forms such as pictures, abstract designs and similar compositions, to communicate impressions and ideas.

Description

Create visual concepts and forms through painting, drawing, carving, sculpting, modelling, printmaking and other media to communicate concepts and ideas.

Tasks include

• Generates ideas, develops concepts, and considers the desired composition, style and colour palette for their visual art forms
• Selects appropriate mediums, such as oil or acrylic paints, inks, pencils, charcoal, pastels or watercolours
• Prepares materials, such as choosing brushes, priming canvases, walls, wood or other surfaces, and sets up the workspace
• Applies selected mediums to canvas or other surfaces using different techniques and implements to achieve the desired visual expression
• Exhibits their visual artwork in art galleries, museums or other exhibition spaces
• Sells their visual art forms directly to collectors, art enthusiasts or through online platforms or art markets
• May use virtual canvases, paint brushes and palettes to create digital visual art forms