Vivid Novel
Solid 18K Gold Commission · Design Fee
- You approve the design before we paint anything
- About six weeks · progress photos along the way
- Free tracked & insured shipping, worldwide
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The starting point of a commission in solid 18K gold — enamel on gold is how portrait miniatures have survived for centuries, with no plating to wear and nothing to thin.
This $150 design fee covers the painter's time to design your piece, and is credited in full toward your total. It is the only thing you owe until you have approved a design and a written price.
After you order, we'll ask for your photo or idea by email. You approve the design, we quote the full price in writing, and nothing is cast, painted or fired until you have said yes to both. Pieces in solid gold begin around $2,000.
What's included
What's included
- The design stage — we draw your piece before anything is painted, with free and unlimited changes
- Photographs of your piece in progress, sent along the way. You don't have to ask
- A final set of studio photographs to approve before it is packed
- Our box, and a silver polishing cloth
- Tracked and insured shipping, worldwide, at no extra cost
One payment when you order. Full refund within 24 hours; 80% after you have seen your design; once you approve the design it goes to the kiln and can no longer be refunded.
How a commission works
How a commission works
1 · You send a photo, or an idea. A clear picture in daylight is plenty — your phone is fine. If the photo you love is from 2011 and slightly blurry, send it anyway.
2 · We design it. You approve it. Before any paint touches metal. Changes here are free and unlimited.
3 · We paint and fire it. By hand, under a microscope, layer over layer.
4 · You approve the finished piece from studio photographs, before it is packed.
5 · It ships — tracked and insured. About six weeks from the day you approve your design.
If it's a gift
If it's a gift
Most of these are. Two things worth knowing:
A commission takes about six weeks, so if it is for a date that matters, tell us at the start and we will work backwards from it with you. For a fixed date, give us three months where you can.
If the day comes before the piece does, write to us — we will send you something to put in their hands on the day, so they know what is being painted for them.
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