Hollywood Squares is a Giclée Reproduction in watercolor by Ellen Jean Diederich featuring chickens in a unique grid style.
Behind the piece: I had fun painting these free-range chickens placing them individually in boxes. It was like they were talking to each other. I arranged them to point you around the composition.
This Giclée Reproduction started as a chicken study. I was painting chickens and arranging them to point to other chickens. They have several pointed features: feet, beaks, and tails. In some ways, it was like putting inverted triangles into squares. Shapes that point, direct the eye. So, I practiced directing the eye and very subtle background color changes to bring out the subject. Because of the quantity and simplicity of this effort, I learned a lot and it built a creative freedom with this subject. Like “Hollywood Squares”, this became a game for me.
Putting a chicken in a box expanded my creativity with a subject by allowing me to play it many different ways without stress. I truly believe a fun painting is valid, because they give you new ideas about a subject.
Different from prints, our giclée’s are high-quality reproductions of the original artwork. For more information about giclée’s please see our gallery page. Thank you!
