[MR] Question on pricing a scroll commission

[Joshua Thomas]

I would up charge due to rush nature of the job. A week is unreasonable
request and you should take whatever you find a reasonable price and double
it.
Materials are a guesstimate and will probably be negligible:
Bristol Board (10 for pack of 20) = 50 cents.
Gouache ($8 a tube x # of tubes (20 in this example estimate) /20(estimates
of number of scrolls you will use a tube on) = $8
Ink (Sumi 6.95 /20 scrolls usage)= 35 cents
Imatation Gold (10 for a booklet of 10, used 2 sheets) 2

Grand Total of materials: About 11 dollars

Doing appraisal of labor is a little more tricky. Your skill and time
alloted sets your price. If you have an emotional investment in seeing the
commission done your price probably drops. I would say a scribe can ask
between 50 and 1000 dollars for a comission based off their skill and time
allotted. You may also find mudania undervalues your skill, which may drop
the price more. All in all what do you think the comissioner is expecting to
pay. Are you will to do it for that? If so go for it.


On 1/24/06, Marybeth Lavrakas <katrous at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I hope some of you can give me advice on a real-world
> commission I've received to produce an award scroll
> for a retiring professor.
>
> The item will be quite large (11x16), but have minimal
> illumination of one large and two small capitals
> utilizing imitation gold leaf, and  acanthus leaves in
> the borders to bracket the upper left and lower right
> corners. A lot of text.
>
> The commission is from my boss, who said he'd pay me
> and never asked me for an estimate! I don't have the
> vaguest notion of how to come to a price above the
> cost of materials. Oh, it's also got to be done within
> a week. Suggestions???
>
> Lady Kateryn Rous, CP
> House Broussard
> Windmasters Hill
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