Mother Moods

Pictures for mixed emotions

Mother’s day feels mixed with expectation and delight, joy and heaviness. I am not sure how to explain all my feelings to you so instead I found you some pictures and writings for you while you are waiting in line for eggs Benedict. —JL

attila manek budapest 1987

Madame Seurat, the Artist's Mother (Madame Seurat, mère) about 1882–1883

Votive in the shape of female genitalia GreekRoman Imperial Period 2nd–3rd century A.D. MFA Boston

The poet and author Julia Ward Howe (pictured here) had aimed to promote a Mothers’ Peace Day decades before the official Mothers Day. For her and the antiwar activists who agreed with her position — including Jarvis’ own mother — the idea of Mother’s Day should spread unity across the globe in the wake of so much trauma following the Civil War in America and Franco-Prussian War in Europe.

Elien Myles

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 1871 by James McNeill Whistler (best known under its colloquial name Whistler's Mother)

Dedication Page from Make Ink (maybe you should get it for your mom as a present)

Albert Camus

My mother on a dock on a lake where just last week I collected a special ingredient for a new project. More details soon.

Vi Khi Nao

One of my first illustrations for the New York Times. A looong time ago. Nicholas Blechman was the AD

For the Colour Lab Subscribers

I started experimenting with the idea of a Mother Colour. A single colour that pulls a composition together. Its usually used in oil painting but I wondered if I could try it with ink.