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Painting With a Needle…<\/i><\/b>
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I was thinking this morning about our influences, and how we got to where we are today as artists.\u00a0 Have you stopped to think about where the ideas come from when you are creating your own art?<\/div>\n
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\u00a0I thought about the choices we make. How do we decide what to create?<\/div>\n
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I immediately think of\u00a0 my MOTHER who patiently teaching \u00a0me to do embroidery when I was a very young child. \u00a0We were\u00a0 sitting side by side in my GRANDMOTHER\u2019s kitchen.\u00a0 She had purchased a kit. It consisted of a piece of beautiful linen fabric, in white. There were three colors of embroidery thread: Light blue, dark blue, and silver gray.\u00a0 I held those little skeins of thread in my hands and moved them about to catch the light on them. They seemed to shimmer as I turned them over and over again. They felt so silky soft in my small hands. The colors seemed to me like they were magic; they were the colors of the sky on a summer afternoon.<\/div>\n
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There were two\u00a0 more thing in my embroidery kit; there was a slender, sharp, silver needle and a round metal embroidery hoop.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0As I speak of this day, I can still see my mother bending over me, and showing my how to put my needle into the cloth, to push gently down on it, and to bring it to the back of the linen cloth. I searched for just the right spot where the needle would be pushed into the back of the cloth, and gave it a shove and watched it pop up onto the front once again.<\/div>\n
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That feeling of pushing the needle gently into the fabric, then pulling the blue thread so gently until it was completely through the fabric was something that stays with me in my memories after sixty years.<\/div>\n
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My imagination brings me once again to feel the silken thread, the tension of moving it from the top to the back of the linen, and then the pull of bringing it back up to the surface. \u00a0It is a feeling of\u00a0 the comfort of\u00a0 repetition \u00a0and the solitude of working with fabric and thread.\u00a0 It\u2019s a quiet feeling that gently comes to me when I remember\u00a0 the slender \u00a0silver needle in my small fingers. \u00a0I was about 8 years old at that time.<\/div>\n
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This afternoon lesson sitting with my Mother, is one of the many precious things my Mother gave me. Did she\u00a0 recognize that I was a child who was destined to be a maker of beautiful things? Somehow, she must have known intuitively that it was important to take the afternoon and spend it with her oldest daughter.\u00a0 Did she know that she was teaching\u00a0 me \u00a0a life lesson with three skeins\u00a0 of thread, a delicate needle, and a piece of ivory linen?<\/div>\n
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Today, I recognize that this was my first painting lesson.<\/div>\n
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In the art I am making these days, I am conscious that I am PAINTING with a NEEDLE, and the THREADS are the SPLASHES of COLOR, my PIGMENTS.\u00a0 Into this mix of fibers and threads, I add dashes of natural gemstones; I gather things from Nature that will be part of my pictures.\u00a0 And, not only are my THREADS the strokes of the painting\u2019s surface, so are the glass beads, the pearls, the vintage objects, and the crystals.<\/div>\n
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PICTURED HERE:\u00a0 Ilsa\u2019s Butterfly Garden, Mixed Media Painting on Fabric.<\/div>\n
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Painting With a Needle… the EXQUISITE \u00a0art of Lynda McKinney Lambert\u00a0 \u00a0 I was thinking this morning about our influences, and how we got to where we are today as artists.\u00a0 Have you stopped to think about where the ideas …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trusting-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4gbwn-57","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12476,"url":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/from-lyndas-journal_bookmaker\/","url_meta":{"origin":57,"position":0},"title":"Lynda’s Journal – Poem – Bookmaker – Tanka + Art","author":"Lynda Lambert","date":"October 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Mixed Media Artwork that combines a : PANTONE Post Card and photograph of Lynda McKinney Lambert. 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