Visual artists

Visual artists create and execute works of art by sculpting, painting, drawing, creating cartoons, engraving or using other techniques.

Job Responsibilities

• Conceiving and developing ideas, designs and styles for paintings, drawings and sculptures
• Arranging objects, positioning models, and selecting landscapes and other visual forms according to chosen subject matter
• Selecting artistic media, method and materials
• Creating representational or abstract three-dimensional or relief forms by shaping, carving and working and combining materials such as wood, stone, clay, metal, ice or paper
• Creating representational or abstract drawings and paintings using pencils, ink, chalk, oil paints, water colours or through the application of other techniques
• Creating drawings and engraving or etching them on metal, wood, or other materials
• Creating cartoons to depict persons and events, often in caricature
• Restoring damaged, soiled and faded paintings and other art objects