My jelly bean painting of Jerusalem

I wouldn't say I am a jelly bean artist because I only did one other prior to the one I am working on now. Then too I was asked to do them. Otherwise I doubt I would have ventured into this unusual arena on my own. But I am glad I did. Painting with jelly beans is an odd but wonderful art medium and I really love the results you get because their colors are so vivid. And in particular, the way I work them makes the painting look like a mosaic.

This is my blog on the 2nd painting. It is of Jerusalem. At the time when I started it some 3 years ago, I was working for a Jewish facility part time. It was soon discovered that I had artistic abilities and so I was asked to make a jelly bean painting for them by one of the managers there - a lady I had come to much admire. I agreed even tho I never heard of painting with jelly beans. Of course I had to do some research and was amazed to see that there were indeed paintings done with jelly beans and they were extraordinary. There was not a lot of jelly bean artists out there at the time, just two showed up in my research; I guess I was soon to become the third.

I had no clue how to begin, not an inkling as to what materials to use and was completely in the dark. In the end like always - I did it my way. Below is a photo log on how Jerusalem was started and how it has progressed up to today. Enjoy the journey; it will be brief for you but for me it has been a long one because of all the interruptions that halted its progress. At one point the painting sat for over a year and half stored in a back room under cover. It has now become 3 years in the making. Had I been left to work it straight thru with no interruptions the total time would have been around 7 mos. It had been planned to be completed in 6 mos when I first started it. It is mostly completed now...just a bit more to go. The painting is 8 feet long by 4 feet high. Hope you enjoy the journey.
Pat

Before you begin, here is a current shot of my painting as it stands now.

Current  - July 22, 2013:

Not being Jewish meant I had to do some research and so off to the computer I went checking out all the pictures I could find on Jerusalem. I wanted one no one else rendered. I found this old photo that looked promising. You can see that there is a lot of debris in the picture. Apparently the photo was taken fter an altercation had taken place. But I like the perspective. Here is that photo.

1) The Photo

  
2) My sketch  

3) Stain Glass Translation

 

 

4) The Start - drawing on the board

 

 

5) Adding in the sun  (unfortunately to be removed later)



 

 

                                      

 

6) close up of upper righ hand corner

 

7) Moving around

 

 

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