Live painting for a company evening in Venice
Giulia Dal Bon paints live during your conventions, seminars and company evenings in Venice. 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 Venice
| 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, signed by your guests: Giulia paints the room, the city or the brand motif in front of everyone, and each person comes and writes their word on the canvas. The work stays with the company, with the guests’ hands on it. From 900 €.
Watercolour portraits of the guests: on watercolour paper, one by one, alone or as a team, and each guest leaves with their own the same evening. 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: the lettering is drawn by hand, the canvas is built in the colours of the house, and a winner’s name can appear during the ceremony and be handed over on stage. Giulia also studied graphic design at the Brera Academy. Included in the canvas of the evening, from 900 €.
The piano and painting show: Orlando at the piano, Giulia at the easel, and the painting revealed on the last note. The canvas can be painted upside down and turned round at the end, if you want the surprise. 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: the reception wall, the canteen wall or a meeting room, 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 Venice
In Venice the setting already does half the work, and that is the risk: guests look at the view and talk little to each other. A painter at work creates the other point of the evening. They come over between courses, watch the canvas grow, take photographs, and the room starts to move.
Giulia paints the canal and the façades from the window, the palace 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 Venice
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 Venice
Giulia travels to the event venues of the city: the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, which has hosted G7 and G20 summits and UNESCO conferences; Terminal 103 at the Marittima, three rooms including one for eight hundred people, the only venue reachable both by road and by water; the Hilton Molino Stucky on the Giudecca, two thousand five hundred square metres with a plenary hall of eight hundred and forty square metres for a thousand delegates, divisible into five. She also travels to private palaces on the Grand Canal.
Your questions, before booking
Can Giulia paint during a gala dinner in a palace?
Yes. She needs a square of about two metres by two, a socket and decent light, and she paints standing next to your guests. 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. Giulia paints the palace or the canal live, then each guest comes and writes whatever they want on the canvas: the company keeps a painted, dated guest book. From 900 €.
Does the equipment fit inside a Venetian palace?
Yes. Giulia arrives with equipment that fits in a boat: easel, canvas, odourless acrylic paint and a sheet that protects the floor around her. In palaces with historic floors it is the first thing people ask about, and the room stays in use while she works.
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.