7316-Sign writers, decorative painters, engravers and etchers

Tasks include

• painting decorative free-hand designs on objects, such as pottery, glass, cigarette cases, lampshades
• transferring from paper transfers decorative or ornamental designs on articles
• 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
• laying out and painting in one or more languages letters, figures, monograms and designs to make signs
• sketching or tracing design or lettering onto work piece or pattern material to prepare pattern or stencil
• designing pattern or lettering to paint work pieces, such as signs, glassware, pottery, or zinc plates
• using software and routing equipment to produce 3D Carved images for application onto larger signage as well as engraved and inlaid signs
• designing and producing normal flat cut lettering or lettering that is shadowed with applied vinyl or lettering that is ready cut for application
• writing, painting, or printing signs or show cards used for display or other purposes
• cutting out letters and signs for display purposes from wallboard or cardboard, by hand or machines, such as electrically powered jigsaw or bandsaw
• examining sketches, diagrams, samples, blueprints, or photographs to decide how designs are to be etched, cut, or engraved onto work pieces
• measuring and computing dimensions of lettering, designs, or patterns to be engraved
• 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
• etching decorative designs, calibration markings and other figures on glass articles.