Live painting for a company evening in Rome
Giulia Dal Bon paints live during your conventions, seminars and company evenings in Rome. 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 Rome
| 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 live painting brings to an evening in Rome
A convention in Rome brings together delegations that meet once a year. A painter at work gives them somewhere to gather standing, glass in hand: they come over, watch the canvas grow, take photographs, and the room mixes on its own.
Giulia paints the city from the terrace, 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 Rome
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 Rome
Giulia travels to the event venues of the city: the Roma Convention Center La Nuvola, designed by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas and opened in 2016 in the EUR district, eight thousand seats in all, a plenary hall for up to six thousand people over nine thousand modular square metres, an auditorium seating one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, and fourteen thousand square metres of glass-fibre membrane around the Teca; the Palazzo dei Congressi in the EUR. She also travels to the historic villas of the Janiculum and Monte Mario.
Two addresses come back for Roman gala dinners: Villa Miani, built in 1837 by the Miani counts on Monte Mario, with the dome of St Peter’s facing it, and Villa Aurelia on the Janiculum, owned by the American Academy in Rome and reopened in 2002 after restoration. Two views, and two ready-made subjects for the canvas of the evening.
Your questions, before booking
Can Giulia paint during a gala dinner on a terrace?
Yes. She needs a square of about two metres by two, a socket and decent light, and she paints standing next to your guests, outdoors when the evening allows it. From 900 € for the canvas of the evening. Free quote within 48 hours, with an invoice in the company name.
Can guests write on the canvas?
Yes. 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. At a convention with delegations from several countries, it is also the moment the room mixes. From 900 €.
And for an award evening or a launch?
Giulia paints the logo, the product or the winner's name by hand into the composition, and the canvas is revealed at the moment of the award. Many companies then hand it to the person who received the award, or to an invited client.
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.