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Fine Artists

Create original artwork using any of a wide variety of media and techniques.

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

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Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

Artists and Related Workers

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Art and Design Workers

Use materials such as pens and ink, watercolors, charcoal, oil, or computer software to create artwork.

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.

Render drawings, illustrations, and sketches of buildings, manufactured products, or models, working from sketches, blueprints, memory, models, or reference materials.

Create sketches, profiles, or likenesses of posed subjects or photographs, using any combination of freehand drawing, mechanical assembly kits, and computer imaging.

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.

Study styles, techniques, colors, textures, and materials used in works undergoing restoration to ensure consistency during the restoration process.

Develop project budgets for approval, estimating time lines and material costs.

Shade and fill in sketch outlines and backgrounds, using a variety of media such as water colors, markers, and transparent washes, labeling designated colors when necessary.

Collaborate with engineers, mechanics, and other technical experts as necessary to build and install creations.

Create and prepare sketches and model drawings of cartoon characters, providing details from memory, live models, manufactured products, or reference materials.

Examine and test paintings in need of restoration or cleaning to determine techniques and materials to be used.

Create graphics, illustrations, and three-dimensional models to be used in research or in teaching, such as in demonstrating anatomy, pathology, or surgical procedures.

Brush or spray protective or decorative finishes on completed background panels, informational legends, exhibit accessories, or finished paintings.

Trace drawings onto clear acetate for painting or coloring, or trace them with ink to make final copies.

Apply solvents and cleaning agents to clean surfaces of paintings, and to remove accretions, discolorations, and deteriorated varnish.

Model substances such as clay or wax, using fingers and small hand tools to form objects.

Collaborate with writers who create ideas, stories, or captions that are combined with artists' work.

Provide entertainment at special events by performing activities such as drawing cartoons.

Render sequential drawings that can be turned into animated films or advertisements.

Market artwork through brochures, mailings, or Web sites.

Photograph objects, places, or scenes for reference material.

Set up exhibitions of artwork for display or sale.

Frame and mat artwork for display or sale.

Teach artistic techniques to children or adults.

Acrylic paintbrushes

Alcohol lamps

Angle grinders

Artists' fountain pens

Artists' palette knives

Artists' palettes

Ball mills

Bevel tools

Brazing tools

Bush hammers

Bust armatures

Camera lenses

Ceramic bead bars

Clay cutters

Clay mixers

Computer data input scanners

Detail carving tools

Die grinders

Digital calipers

Digital hydrometers

Digital pyrometers

Digital scales

Digital thermometers

Digital viscosometers

Dipping tongs

Drying cabinets

Dust masks

Edging tools

Electric kilns

Electric potters wheels

Electric saws

Encaustic scrapers

Encaustic spatulas

Enlarger timers

Extruder dies

Fettling knives

Figure armature systems

Gas kilns

Glass kilns

Graduated measuring cylinders

Hand chisels

Hand glaze mixers

Handheld clay extruders

Handlemaker tools

Head armatures

Heat resistant gloves

Kick wheels

Kiln carts

Kiln oxygen probes

Kiln ventilation hoods

Laptop computers

Lens filters

Linoleum cutters

Loop tools

Mat cutters

Metal inert gas MIG welders

Mold knives

Oil paintbrushes

Oxyacetylene torches

Paint spray guns

Personal computers

Photo enlargers

Photo quality computer printers

Photography tripods

Plasma cutters

Pneumatic chisels

Pot lifts

Potter's ribs

Pottery cleanup tools

Pottery duster brushes

Pottery kilns

Power sanders

Print squeegees

Printing tongs

Processing trays

Protective safety glasses

Pugmills

Raku kilns

Raku tongs

Remote firing flashes

Riffler rasps

Round hole punches

Saber saws

Sandblasting guns

Sculpting thumbs

Sgraffito tools

Shielded arc welders

Single lens reflex SLR cameras

Slab mats

Slab rollers

Square hole cutters

Stationary lighting systems

Steel rasps

Stone carving chisels

Stone carving knives

Stone saws

Strobe flashes

Sumi paintbrushes

Tablet computers

Tattoo Artist

[MUSIC] day out without questioning anything. love to do what you do. who's completely original in thought. making decisions about my life. what do I really want to do? this is a marathon. gonna count, embrace it. blown away by hospitality, by generosity. seem to connect with us. a blender and being all mashed up, and more insight into who you are. this is really quite a cool city, but the food itself is very unique, physics of food and that aren't traditional. imagine walking into a restaurant, you don't know anything about the chef and is a paper menu that you eat. walk away. having children, wife, new home, me as working for someone else. I were actually homeless for three years. caused a lot of trouble. >> I had this pyro I move in with my dad, our lawn was very big. a hectare I guess in Australia, fascination with mechanics. one day because I got sick of it running, that I would break it. around with it and the internal combustion engine. just when you live a life of simplicity how you can solve problems and graduating from high school. for about three months when I was 17, food fish restaurant. his name is Charlie Harrison. you're a pretty good cook, I'm living out of my car. can stay on my couch. a year. then I started working for could get in the back door of. you know what, I'm gonna go and work for in the world, who is chef Trotter, and I said I'm willing to work for free. be your sous chef at this restaurant. he's probably had eight sous chefs. level because you're working literally five, six days a week. even if it's not at work, own time to make it fun. when I was working one job, my house like the Polymer Oven. wife supported me and let me around with printers with plastics. of our wedding gifts. environment it took a lot of dues paying. to make you a dish called roadkill. seasonal beet puree. beet, and we're just going to create then you have sort of little guts here. been slow cooked right here. tire and then that just goes over here. I've got no complaints. culinary school, I think it's okay. [LAUGH] there's nothing that you can't achieve and but, you know, this place is living proof. have to tap into that creative side. the country in this thing? that has got to build some character? fit barriers that you put up and might go through when you're talking it your all and even if it doesn't work, you're out at the old ball game. >> I'm a fan. in Australia anyway. sort of, respected the umpire. make at least one substantial change this opportunity has given me, floats around in my head. so hard to know, reality at the moment. sort of mediocre life, but bit more impressive to me. is the CEO and he runs the whole thing. we go to that have like a good music because all I had to go off Terry and was I saw him on a video for Rock and I didn't know what to expect from him. are artistically involved. or some fashion they'll find themselves. had any interest in any of them. except my off hours when I was chasing was music and comic books and movies. left my wife and I was homeless. always a good answer for things, and of my friends about the situation and were looking for a particular job. acquisitions, and just luck stepped in. about comic books and movies and music. Marvel comics, they're looking for books that has a business background. do something like that where finally, me going on comic books or in the world and it terrified him. became President of Marvel Comics, luck making a difference in your life at that life turns out for the best, most of the right things. you thought it would be. place, but it's related to something that the risk taking's the hardest thing. yourself out on that limb? you're immortal right now, make up for almost any mistake you make. fortitude to take these risks and toward it as opposed to avoiding it. >> Yeah. >> That's something I've noticed years trying these things, and careers still happen at 35. it all happened later in my life and really gonna count. [MUSIC] you'll get there, okay? is somewhere I've wanted to go, and get me tattooed. there's something empowering about that. >> Hi, I'm Ariana. >> Hi! halfway through going to Art School. me and him became real good friends and year and by my junior year, I was tattooing professionally. of the choice you're making on your skin, element of thought into your life? too much thinking ahead. I've realized that, just as soon as you happens and it totally changes everything. statement of nothing's permanent. which is permanent on my skin, but looking back at this experience. reconceptualize it and from it every time. to go see Elaine Kwon. but I think when I go home, concrete sorted out my dad would actually like a very similar sort of situation. was four years old and my father is, he still does. a minority but your also female. work doubly hard and to get the recognition you want. but [LAUGH] we did. performing at a young age and it was really tough when came time to make about what we're supposed to do. become a medical doctor. no aptitude or anything. of me being stable and I didn't listen. decided I was already set up to go to enroll in pre-med. a competition in Texas, and and I was sort of had a back door. just didn't want to go into medicine. and I I had a very tough and then I just left and. cuz otherwise I'm gonna feel sick inside. 15 or 16, when I wanted to study music and with my dad is breaking down. important for me when I go home to sit kind of, with my life. it is to kind of get away? old ways of feeling when I'm back. follow your own path is to create have to love him any less or but physical distance, yourself in your own space. cuz you said that. absolutely. because parents care. to be happy, and stable, and safe. somewhere as a university professor. president of the university. formulated out how the path would go. >> I jumped off a box, I don't know, 50 or I was getting my doctorate, started, and I just thought, well, I'm so but it's okay. and I got my black belts, and I'm still doing it! me, I'm gonna really try to explore, we shouldn't do that, get into my head. I got the Nike Asia ad campaign [LAUGH] I'll go for martial arts. I don't think she put my age on there. you really do, I mean so much time. a certain age is invented, be when you're such and such age. you don't have to do that. to be a woman at any age, really. different ideas about life philosophy, with an idea about life. it's like I've gone through about future goals, and where I wanna be. and then now I've had this all of the time everyday. it's like that weird reverse. will remain a little bit, so that. keep thinking about it. from this parental approval thing. that's one of the risks, but doing the right thing. come back home, it'll be okay. worth doing comes easy. against pretty big forces. situations, you'd be half a person. and what we technically run away from. Toby, called me from Sydney, and be not to and I had no words. amazing things have been happening what I've just been through? the program you just watched. create their own roadtrip experience. into that movement. I've had an interview before, but never asking. I think last year when he was working a new type of search engine. interested in programming. in actually coming to Fresno. that this is what you wanted to do? I'm not a software developer. me confidence that I can do things. not necessarily the cleverest students. of a particular carry out, don't, one must be flexible. but you can overcome them. go to a school, go to college. of doing anything else. to look at the world differently. week of the shoot. in achieving something that is so after that to top that. the logical reasoning that your talking yourself out of something. that feels to be so passionate. the questioning doesn't ever stop. interviews from the road. a road trip of your own, or on DVD for 32.99 plus shipping. or visit roadtripnation.com/store. 

<p>The team drives north to Chicago. They interview chef Homaru Cantu and go to a White Sox baseball game-a first for the Australians. Then they drive to Cleveland and interview Terry Stewart, president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The team drives east to New York City to visit with tattoo artist Eli Quinters and pianist and tae kwon do champion Elaine Kwon.</p>

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