Jelly Belly Gourmet Jelly Beans
Jelly Belly a hit at Golden Globe and Oscar Suites
George Clooney picture made of 10,000
Jelly Belly Gourmet jelly beans. |
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The Oscar week suite hosted by Roger & Lynn Neal of Roger Neal's Style Hollywood featured JELLY BELLY GOURMET JELLY BEANS ART in the suite daily. Large scale portraits of famous personalities and classic Americana subjects all made in mosaics of thousands of Jelly Belly® jelly beans are in the private collectionof the Jelly Belly Candy Co. The permanent artistic creations were commissioned by the manufacturer of Jelly Belly beans, and selections may be seen in traveling exhibits and on free public tours of the company’s public tours in California and Wisconsin.
Jelly Belly C.E.O. Herman Rowland has commissioned California artist Roger Rocha to create a one of a kind portrait of Oscar Nominee George Clooney made of Jelly Bellys. The world media turned out to see this unique portrait, Roger Neal of NEAL PR advised Jelly Belly to create a portrait of a current Oscar Nominee. Fox News Channel Network, CNN, MSNBC, IN STYLE MAGAZINE, Entertainment Tonight, were just a few of the media outlets that Neal had cover this unqie portrait.
The Jelly Belly Collection includes portraits of Elvis Presley, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ronald Reagan,
Robin Bain, star of "The Young & The Restless" at our Oscar Suite. |
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Amelia Earhart, Laurel & Hardy, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, a Native American chief, Pope John Paul II, Martin Luther King Jr., the Statue of Liberty, the American bald eagle, Benjamin Franklin, Asian “good luck” Dragon and others.
A portrait of former President Ronald Reagan is currently on display at the Reagan Library in Simi, Calif. The six-foot tall portrait of Lady Liberty was selected by the American Crafts Museum for its 1988 show on “The Confectioner’s Art” which traveled across the country for two years. A dual portrait of President Reagan and Vice President George Bush was displayed at the Republican State Convention in San Francisco in 1984. The portrait of Abraham Lincoln was first unveiled by
Governor James Edgar in the Illinois Governor’s Office where Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address resides.
Jelly Belly CEO Herman Rowland with Shawn King (wife of Larry King) at our Oscar Suite. |
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Jelly Belly Art was the brainchild of San Francisco artist Peter Rocha, the self-proclaimed king of Jelly Belly art in 1982. After President Reagan publicly expressed his fondness for Jelly Belly beans, artist Peter Rocha tried some himself. He was immediately impressed with the range and brilliance of the colors of the beans.
He began with rough pencil drawings using photographs of the subjects. He then painted a tight color composition and finished his unusual work by applying a mosaic of Jelly Belly beans.
The first portrait, appropriately of President Reagan, took Rocha over six months to complete as he painstakingly dipped each bean in the glue and placed it in a mosaic pattern. He ultimately refined his process, developing a faster method and more polished look by preparing the beans in the trays, applying them in groups of colors and correctly placing the final beans with chopsticks or by hand.
Rocha retired in 2000 and his nephew Roger Rocha, took up the calling. Roger Rocha, is a San Francisco artist and grandson of contemporary artist Clifford Stills. He apprenticed to learn the jelly bean artistry with his uncle Peter, who
The President of Jelly Belly with Allison Janney (star of oscar winning movie "Juno") at our Oscar Suite. |
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created the first piece of Jelly Belly art in 1982. Roger created the 2002 portraits of President George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth ll, which can be seen on the company’s art gallery on the web site www.jellybelly.com.
In 2006 Chicago artist Tracy Ostmann was commissioned to make two portraits of the animated character in The Ant Bully movie. In 2002 she created art pieces for the Shedd Aquarium holiday event, where she made a clown fish, trigger fish and shark portraits from thousands of Jelly Belly beans. She also made a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. for the University of Pennsylvania.
The Jelly Belly Candy Co. introduced the Jelly Belly bean in 1976. The company currently makes over 100 year-round and seasonal gourmet candies at its company headquarters in Fairfield, Calif., and at a second factory in North Chicago, Ill. The company is a family-owned business now in its fifth generation of candy making. Additional information is available from the Jelly Belly Hotline (800) 522-3267 or at JellyBelly.com.
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at our Oscar Suite. |
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at our Oscar Suite. |
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at our Oscar Suite. |
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