What are the roles and responsibilities for Fine Artist?

• Use materials such as pens and ink, watercolours, charcoal, oil, or computer software to create artwork.
• Integrate and develop visual elements, such as line, space, mass, colour, 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.
• Study different techniques to learn how to apply them to artistic endeavours.
• 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 watercolours, markers, and transparent washes, labelling designated colours when necessary.
• Create sketches, profiles, or likenesses of posed subjects or photographs, using any combination of freehand drawing, mechanical assembly kits, and computer imaging.