Live painting for a company evening in Lugano
Giulia Dal Bon paints live during your conventions, seminars and company evenings in Lugano. Trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, she paints in front of 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 Lugano
| 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 canvas of the evening, and the words of your guests: Giulia paints the venue that hosts you live, and each guest comes and writes whatever they like on the canvas — a word, a name, a signature. The company keeps a painted guest book with the date of the evening on it. From 900 €.
Watercolour portraits of the guests: alone, as a couple or as a team, each guest leaves with their own the same evening, and everyone can have a turn. 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. She draws the lettering by hand and builds the canvas in the colours of the house, and a winner’s name can be painted during the ceremony and handed over on stage. Included in the canvas of the evening, from 900 €.
The piano and painting show: Orlando plays, Giulia paints on stage, and the painting is revealed on the last note. She can also paint the canvas upside down and turn it round at the end, if you want the piece of theatre. 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: what your guests watched come to life one evening can stay on a wall, at reception, in a meeting room or in the canteen. Painted with a brush, in odourless acrylic: the place stays open while she works. From 150 € per sqm.
What live painting brings to an evening in Lugano
Lugano hosts headquarters, banks and trading companies, and its evenings often repeat themselves from one year to the next. A painter at work changes the way people move: guests come over between courses, look at how far the canvas has got, take photographs, and the conversation starts on its own.
Giulia paints the lake and Monte Brè, the room you are in, the brand motif or the highlight of the evening. The signed canvas stays with the company, with the date of the evening on it.
In practice, for a company in Lugano
Send the date, the venue and the number of guests. Giulia replies within 48 hours with a free, itemised quote that goes straight into a budget, and an invoice in the company name. She prepares two complimentary sketches so the management or the agency can approve the direction before the evening.
She speaks Italian, French, English and Spanish, which counts in a room where guests come from several countries. She paints in odourless acrylic, protects the floor around her, and the room stays in use while she works.
Event venues in Lugano
Giulia travels to the event venues of the city: the Palazzo dei Congressi, opened in 1975 on piazza Indipendenza beside the Ciani park, with eight rooms from twenty-five to more than five hundred and fifty people, a hall B seating seven hundred with telescopic seating and two thousand participants in all; the LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura and the MASI. She also travels to the villas and hotels along the shores of Lake Lugano.
In Lugano Italian, German and English meet at the same table, and an evening often runs in three languages at once. Painting, for its part, reads at a glance: that is why it works well here in front of a mixed room.
Your questions, before booking
Can Giulia paint during a gala dinner by the lake?
Yes. She needs a square of about two metres by two, a socket and decent light, and she paints standing next to your guests for as long as you like. From 900 € for the canvas of the evening, painted live in front of your guests. Free quote within 48 hours, with an invoice in the company name.
Can guests write on the canvas?
Yes, and in Lugano it is the format that works best with an international audience: Giulia paints the venue live, then each guest comes and writes whatever they want on the canvas. The company keeps a painted, dated guest book that stays on the wall instead of in a drawer. From 900 €.
And for an international client, in English?
Giulia speaks Italian, French, English and Spanish. At the same table she can talk to a guest from Milan, one from Zurich and one from London, and it shows in the way guests come up to the easel during the evening.
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.