Median Annual Wage: $43,890
Education: High school diploma or equivalent (22%); Bachelor's degree (22%); Less than high school diploma (16%)
Projected Growth: Slower than average (3% to 7%)
Related Job Titles: Artist; Fine Artist; Sculptor; Painter; Artist Blacksmith; Illustrator; Portrait Artist; Sacred Art Artist; Stained Glass Artist; Automotive Artist
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Source: O*NET OnLine information for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators.
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- 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.
- Submit preliminary or finished artwork or project plans to clients for approval, incorporating changes as necessary.
- Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities.
- Create finished art work as decoration, or to elucidate or substitute for spoken or written messages.
- Cut, bend, laminate, arrange, and fasten individual or mixed raw and manufactured materials and products to form works of art.
- 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.
- Study different techniques to learn how to apply them to artistic endeavors.
Source: O*NET OnLine information for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- 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.
- Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Operations Analysis - Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
- Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Source: O*NET OnLine information for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators.