DEAREST DIARY

Possibly the most inspiring and generous gesture an artist can make is to open up the pages of her diary (http://www.amazon.com/Diary-Frida-Kahlo-Abradale-Books). Frida Kahlo's pages looked gauged, as if she was literally carving her vision into the page. her expressive passion looked a good half century ahead of its' time.

On Beci Orpin's beautifully sensitive blog (www.beciorpin.com/blog) she shares pages from her travel journals. A tender mix of packaging, bus tickets, clothing labels and drawn things, we feel like we are inside the suitcase, nosing around the cool places with the eyes of a curious child. The third artist we feature (and asmire0 here is a designer and illustrator from Denmark who made a solid artbook where every page was a little masterpiece.

Christine Clemenson's DEAR DIARY project (www.christineclemmensen.blogspot.com) made me want to paint all over my more boring books and start journaling like a fiend. Little Branch are keeping a diary. it is seasonal, private and a bit fractured. Happy to share when more pages and more experiences have gone down. Now come on, what is stopping you starting a really lush little diary today? The one thing you can never regain is the day you just spent. Seize it! Paint it! Love it!