"Fields"

Lindsey Delich "Fields"

8 x 8 in 3x, acrylic paint and oil paint, 2021

My idea was originally to create a painting of a field that wouldn’t actually exist in real life. I created the pink one first. I decided that it looks kind of like bubblegum so that individual field is the bubblegum field. Then I wanted to make a couple more that are even more unrealistic. I made the jellyfish field second, then I made the lightning field last. The bubblegum field started off a totally different color, so the final colors are actually the result of multiple colors covering each other up. That one is mostly acrylic but some bits of off-white oil scattered about. The jellyfish field is 100% oil paint. This one also looked very different at the beginning. The sky is the result of mixing a bunch of oil paints together and brushing over them until I got the look I wanted. The lightning field is 100% acrylic paint. I had to use a very thin brush for the lightning and a round brush for the clouds. This series is supposed to represent childlike imagination. I want my audience to think about how fun it was to imagine things that would never be, like a field of jellyfish on land. Getting the jellyfish sky to look the way I wanted was pretty hard. I had to keep adding colors. I trusted the process and now I really like it. If I started over I would probably make the bubblegum field a cotton candy field and add some blue and make the pink lighter. This is a surreal series. This is unique to my own personal style because it’s kind of all over the place and I like that. I like that it is unorganized but tied together by being “fields”.