Jellybean Row painting in Australia sets new Guinness World Record
A group of Australian children set a new world record over the weekend, after painting an iconic Newfoundland scene — the Jellybean Row houses in St. John's.
This weekend a group called Jellybeanstreet hosted a paint by numbers event, bringing in children to paint parts of the rowhouse scene.
Marissa March, with Jellybeanstreet, says the goal was to beat the standing Guinness World Record of most contributions to a painting by numbers, as well as raise money for a local children's hospital in Adelaide, Australia.
Jellybeanstreet is an organization that creates unique modern art from children's fingerpaintings to sell online, with 40-60 per cent of the proceeds going to a children's charity chosen by the parents of the kid painter.
"Really what we want to do is we want to actually then convert that into what we do with the Jellybean Row houses, and any of those prints that are sold all profits will be going back to one of the big hospitals here in Adelaide," March said.
March said the inspiration for the charity's name and the massive painting was, indeed, from the iconic St. John's scene.
"My husband is from St. John's and I've been there a few times myself now and I love it and when we had to come up with a name I said, 'Well, it has to be Jellybeanstreet because of the little rowhouses that we've got a picture of in our house," she said.
"I fell in love with the colours, the houses, and we thought well, you know, the title it just matched with what we do."
The previous world record was achieved by FXX Networks in the U.S. for the animated series The Simpsons, and featured 2,263 painters contributing to the piece.
By Sunday, March said Jellybeanstreet had beaten that record — with 3,000 children painting a portion of the piece throughout the weekend.
Prints of the final product will be available for purchase in multiple sizes, in canvas and posters, in support of the Women's and Children's Hospital Foundation in Australia.
