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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Plan and prepare work.
   • Job requirements are identified from drawings and instructions, confirmed, and applied to planning and preparation.
   • Material quantities are estimated according to size of sign and materials to be used.
   • Health and safety requirements are identified according to specified tasks and workplace operations, and are applied to planning.
   • Substrate is identified and prepared according to planned material application.
   • Tools, equipmentand materials are selected to carry out tasks according to job requirements and relevant Australian standards.
   • Layout is set out to scale.
   • Colour selection is determined consistent with job requirements and colours are recorded for future use.

Range Statement

This section specifies work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below.
Job requirements must include:	purpose of sign quality requirements size and style of sign.
Health and safety requirements must include:	selection, correct fitting, and use of PPE prescribed under legislation, regulations and workplace policies and practices emergency procedures, including: evacuation first aid location and use of firefighting equipment hazard identification and risk control procedures safe operating procedures, including the conduct of operational risk assessment and treatments associated with: lighting use of machines use of tools and equipment workplace environmental requirements.
Tools and equipment must include at least two of the following:	artist brushes easel sketch pad.

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Performance Evidence

A person demonstrating competency in this unit must satisfy all of the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, and must produce two hand-rendered pictorials as follows:

one must be a portrait of a person, using at least seven different colours, showing facial texture, lines, contouring, light and shade with lettering underneath

one must be a company logo with lettering, using at least four different colours and showing blended and shaded lettering techniques.

One of the above hand-rendered pictorials must be produced on a masonry wall measuring at least 1.5 square metres.

One of the above hand-rendered pictorials must be produced on one of the following:

canvas

glass

metal

paper

timber.

For each hand-rendered pictorial, the person must demonstrate use of at least two different painting techniques selected from:

posterisation

scumbling

stippling

wet blend.

In doing the above work, the person must:

interpret design specifications, including dimensions, symbols, abbreviations and key features of signs

identify and correctly apply designed material to prepared substrate

identify and record colours used

apply techniques to produce colour fully to boundary limits

reproduce pictorial to size requirements

check the final work for accuracy and completeness, and identify and rectify any defects.

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Knowledge Evidence

A person demonstrating competency in this unit must demonstrate knowledge of:

application of the following typography elements in sign-writing and hand rendering pictorials, including:

font types

principles of layout

size and spacing

Australian standards relevant to the use of paint:

AS 2311 Guide to the painting of buildings

AS 2700 Colour standards for general purposes

paint application techniques relating to hand rendering pictorials

theory and processes used in colour selection for sign-writing

methods for identifying dimensions, symbols, abbreviations and key features of signs from pictorial designs and drawings

compatibility of surfaces with paints, solvents and mediums

purpose and application of the following when working with paint and other chemicals used to produce hand-rendered pictorials:

safety data sheets (SDS)

safe work method statements (SWMS)

processes and techniques to measure and set out relevant to layout of signs

statutory and regulatory authority requirements, particularly those relating to:

removal of waste products

storage of chemicals and materials

terminology and use of abbreviations in the signs and graphics industry.

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