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53122.01 – Painters

Painters create original paintings, drawings, and other artistic works.

Overview

Example job titles

  • Silkscreen artist
  • Visual arts artist

Core competencies

  • Equipment and Tool Selection to choose the right brushes, paints and surfaces for their projects, ensuring the desired effect and quality in their work
  • Product Design to conceptualize and plan the layout and composition of their artwork, carefully structuring elements to create visually harmonious and effective designs
  • Colour Perception to mix, select and apply colours, achieving the desired visual effects and conveying the intended mood or message in their artwork
  • Manual Dexterity to manipulate paint brushes, palette knives and other painting tools with precision, enabling the accurate mixing of paints and execution of detailed and textured brushwork
  • Creativity to conceive unique ideas, express emotions, and experiment with techniques, allowing them to produce original and compelling artwork
  • Knowledge in Arts to understand of various artistic principles, techniques and historical contexts, enabling them to create original and meaningful works

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Create drawings, paintings and other artwork using oils, pastels, watercolours, charcoal, ink and other media.

Additional information

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Similar occupations classified elsewhere

Exclusions:

  • Artisans and craftspersons (53124)
  • Graphic designers and illustrators (52120)

NOC hierarchy breakdown

NOC version

NOC 2021 Version 1.0

Broad occupational category

5 – Occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport

TEER

3 – Occupations usually require a college diploma or apprenticeship training of less than two years; or more than six months of on-the-job training

Major group

53 – Occupations in art, culture and sport

Sub-major group

531 – Occupations in art and culture

Minor group

5312 – Occupations in creative and performing art

Unit group

53122 – Painters, sculptors and other visual artists

Occupational profile

53122.01 – Painters

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