Decorative painters design and create visual art on different kinds of surfaces such as pottery, casings, glass and fabric. They use diverse materials and a variety of techniques to produce decorative illustrations ranging from stenciling to free-hand drawing.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Painting decorative freehand designs on objects, such as pottery, glass, cigarette cases, lampshades;
(b) Transferring from paper transfers decorative or ornamental designs on articles;
(c) Integrating and developing visual elements, such as line, space, mass, colour, and perspective, in order to produce desired effects such as the illustration of ideas, emotions or moods;
(d) Laying out and painting in one or more languages letters, figures, monograms and designs to make signs;
(e) Sketching or tracing design or lettering onto work piece or pattern material to prepare pattern or stencil;
(f) Designing pattern or lettering to paint work pieces such as signs, glassware, pottery or zinc plates;
(g) Using software and routing equipment to produce three-dimensional carved images for application onto larger signage as well as engraved and inlaid signs;
(h) Designing and producing normal flat cut lettering, or lettering that is shadowed with applied vinyl or lettering that is ready cut for application;
(i) Writing, painting or printing signs or show cards used for display or other purposes;
(j) Cutting out letters and signs for display purposes from wallboard or cardboard, by hand or machines such as electrically powered jigsaw or bandsaw;
(k) Examining sketches, diagrams, samples, blueprints, or photographs to decide how designs are to be etched, cut or engraved onto work pieces;
(l) Measuring and computing dimensions of lettering, designs, or patterns to be engraved;
(m) Engraving and printing patterns, ornamental designs, etchings, trademarks, figures or lettering onto flat or curved surfaces of a wide variety of metal, glass, plastic, or ceramic items;
(n) Etching decorative designs, calibration markings and other figures on glass articles.