Live painting for a company event in Paris
Giulia Dal Bon paints live during your conventions, award evenings and gala dinners in Paris. 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 Paris
| 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 Paris
Paris is the first congress city in France, and the guests at closing evenings have seen it all. A painter at work changes the way the room moves: people take the time to watch, come back to see how far she has got, take photographs, and the painting becomes the subject of the evening.
Giulia paints the room that hosts you, the zinc rooftops and the Seine, the brand motif or the high point of the programme. The signed canvas stays with the company, with the date on it.
In practice, for a company in Paris
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 learned French out of love for Paris, and she also speaks Italian, English and Spanish: the planning happens in your agency’s language, and the room can come from several countries. She paints in odourless acrylic, and the room stays in use while she works.
Event venues in Paris
Giulia travels to the city’s event venues: the Palais des Congrès at Porte Maillot, thirty-two thousand square metres, four amphitheatres including the Grand Amphithéâtre with three thousand seven hundred and twenty-three seats and the Amphithéâtre Bleu with eight hundred and twenty-six, and more than eighty meeting rooms; the Palais Brongniart, the former Paris Stock Exchange, four thousand square metres, two auditoriums of five hundred and ninety-four and ninety-nine seats, six reception halls from one hundred to five hundred and eighty square metres, up to one thousand guests for a gala dinner and two thousand for a cocktail; the Salles du Carrousel beneath the Louvre, more than seven thousand square metres and an auditorium of two thousand three hundred seats; and the Pavillon Gabriel, between the Grand Palais and the Concorde, with its glass roof and its terrace onto the Champs-Élysées gardens.
She also travels to Neuilly-sur-Seine, Levallois-Perret, Courbevoie and La Défense, Boulogne-Billancourt, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Saint-Denis, Montreuil, Versailles, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Rueil-Malmaison, Roissy and Marne-la-Vallée.
Your questions, before booking
Can Giulia paint during an award ceremony?
Yes. The canvas moves forward through the ceremony and is revealed at the moment of the group photograph. It can carry the winner’s name, the brand logo or the room itself, drawn by hand. Giulia also studied graphic design at the Brera Academy: the lettering is laid out like a page, and it is approved beforehand on the two complimentary sketches. From 900 €.
Can the guests leave a word on the canvas?
Yes. During the evening Giulia paints the large canvas — the room or your brand motif — and each person comes and writes what they like on it. The company takes away a painted, dated guest book that goes back up at reception. Giulia holds the composition, so the whole thing stays readable. From 900 €.
Can the piano and painting show be booked for a gala?
Yes. Orlando plays a neoclassical repertoire, in the line of Ludovico Einaudi or Hania Rani, and Giulia paints on stage while he plays: the painting is revealed on the last note. For a piece of theatre she can paint the canvas upside down and turn it round in front of the room. The show is quoted on request and fits the length of your programme.
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.