Live painting for a company event in Barcelona
Giulia Dal Bon paints live during your conventions, award evenings and gala dinners in Barcelona. She sets her easel among your guests, and the signed canvas stays with the company the same evening. From 900 €, invoice in the company name, free quote within 48 hours.
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Live painting prices for a company event in Barcelona
| Company evenings, conventions and seminars | |
|---|---|
| The canvas of the evening, painted live in front of your guests | from €900 |
| Portraits of your guests, during the evening | from €1,200 |
| Large format or a full day | from €2,400 |
| Another length, another place | quote on request |
Free quote within 48 hours
Invoice made out to the company. Travel and logistics are agreed together.
What Giulia can offer for your evening
Tell her what you are looking for, she suggests one option or several, and the evening is built with you.
During the evening
The large canvas, and the guests’ handwriting: Giulia paints the venue that hosts you during the evening, and your guests come and write what they like on it. It is a painted, dated guest book that stays on your wall. From 900 €.
Watercolour portraits of the guests: Giulia sketches them one by one, alone, in pairs or by team, and each person goes home with their own. From 1 200 €.
The canvas painted by your teams: each team paints one part, Giulia links the pieces and holds the composition, and the whole ends up as a single image on your wall. It is the seminar format. From 900 €.
The logo, the product or the winner’s name, painted by hand: Giulia also studied graphic design at the Brera Academy, and she draws the lettering by hand in the colours of the house. A winner’s name can be painted in front of the room and handed over on stage. Included in the canvas of the evening, from 900 €.
The piano and painting show: the piano and the brush move forward together until the last note, and the canvas is uncovered at the end. For a piece of theatre Giulia can paint it upside down and turn it round in front of the room. Quoted on request.
Before and after
The poster for the evening, painted by hand: the invitation, the poster or the programme, painted by hand, then laid out and delivered print-ready. Giulia signed the poster for the 83rd Open d’Italia. From 700 €.
A mural in your offices: once the evening is over, the painting can carry on along a wall, at reception or in a meeting room. With a brush, in odourless acrylic, and the place stays open while she works. From 150 € per sqm.
What a live painting brings to an evening in Barcelona
Barcelona hosts congresses all year round, and the guests at closing dinners have already seen plenty of stages and plenty of buffets. A painter at work shifts the centre of gravity of the room: people take the time to watch, come back to see how far the canvas has got, take photographs, and the conversation starts on its own.
Giulia paints the city that hosts you, the outline of the Sagrada Família or the rooftops of the Gòtic, the room itself, the brand motif or the high point of the evening. The signed canvas stays with the company, with the date of the evening on it.
In practice, for a company in Barcelona
Send the date, the venue and the number of guests: Giulia replies within 48 hours with a free quote, itemised line by line so it goes straight into a budget, and an invoice in the company name. Two complimentary sketches go out before the evening, so the management or the agency can approve the subject.
She speaks Spanish, Italian, French and English: in Barcelona one table often brings four nationalities together, and the planning happens in your agency’s language. She paints in odourless acrylic, protects the floor around her, and the room stays in use while she works.
Event venues in Barcelona
Giulia travels to the city’s event venues: the CCIB, the international convention centre opened in 2004 for the Universal Forum of Cultures, two buildings linked by an underground walkway, one hundred thousand square metres and up to fifteen thousand delegates; the Fira de Barcelona halls, at Montjuïc and Gran Via; the Casa Llotja de Mar, built facing the harbour in the second half of the fourteenth century, whose Saló de Contractacions is a medieval hall fourteen metres high, seven hundred and nine square metres for seven hundred and ten people, with its neoclassical courtyard and its Consuls’ Hall; and the Poble Espanyol on Montjuïc, opened in 1929.
She also travels to L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Badalona, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Esplugues de Llobregat, Castelldefels, Sitges, Terrassa, Sabadell, Mataró, Vilanova i la Geltrú and Girona.
Your questions, before booking
Can Giulia paint during the closing dinner of a congress?
Yes. She starts at the aperitif, works on through dinner and reveals the canvas at dessert or during the speech. For a gala evening she can come with Orlando at the piano: he plays, she paints, and if you want a piece of theatre she paints the canvas upside down and turns it round at the end. The show is quoted on request; the canvas of the evening starts at 900 €.
Can the guests write on the canvas?
Yes. Giulia paints the large canvas during the evening — the city, the room or your brand motif — and each guest comes and writes whatever they like on it: a word, a first name, a signature. The company keeps a painted, dated guest book that stays on the wall. Giulia keeps the composition in hand so the whole thing reads. From 900 €.
Can everything be arranged in Spanish?
Yes. Giulia speaks Spanish, and also Italian, French and English. The exchanges with your agency, the brand brief and the words you want painted are settled in whichever language suits you. On the night, the painting reads in every language: that is what makes it easy to programme in front of an international room.
How much does live painting cost for a company evening?
From €900 for a live performance, and the length is decided with you: twenty minutes during a speech, an hour at the drinks reception, or the whole evening. Portraits of your guests, sketched during the evening, start at €1,200. A large format or a full day starts at €2,400. Giulia Dal Bon sends a free quote within 48 hours, itemised line by line so it slots into a budget, with an invoice made out to the company.
What exactly does the company receive?
The canvas, signed, handed over the same evening, and the invoice made out to the company, itemised line by line. If you wish, Giulia also paints the company name or logo into the composition.
What happens to the painting after the evening?
It stays with the company. Many hang it in reception or in a meeting room: it is the trace of the evening, and everyone who was there recognises it. It can also be given to a departing director, handed to a client, auctioned for a charity, or drawn among the guests. Giulia signs it if you wish.
Can the logo or the brand colours go into the painting?
Yes. Giulia also studied graphic design at the Brera Academy: she draws the lettering by hand and builds the canvas around the company’s colours. The logo can appear painted, or stay out and let the palette speak. It is decided beforehand, on the two complimentary sketches, with your management or your agency.
Can the team take part?
Yes, and it works well at a seminar: everyone adds a brushstroke, or each team paints a section that Giulia then ties together. She keeps hold of the composition so the result stands up. Tell her how many people and how much time you have, and she adapts.
What does Giulia need on site?
A square of about two metres by two, a power socket and some light. She arrives with her easel, her canvases and her paints, protects the floor around her and leaves with her own equipment. The acrylic she uses dries fast, so the canvas leaves the same evening.
Where has Giulia already painted live?
At the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, for Play Green, she painted live alongside the illustrator Francesco Barcella, on a reclaimed wooden panel supplied by the Di Nuovo craftsmen. And on 6 July 2017, in Camaiore, for the fourteenth Festival Gaber, she painted under the Arco di Via Vittorio Emanuele beside the guitarist Gianni Martini. The links are on the Press page.