LIBRARY OF THEMES

Welcome to our complete library of Studio Diary themes. You’ll find in-depth descriptions of each Diary when you click on the individual product.

You are welcome to purchase any single Studio Diary below for just $36, or purchase a complete Year of Studio Diaries for $345. Once you purchase a Diary, it’s yours to keep and enjoy for life!

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Studio Diaries:
Making It Personal

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

Making It Personal

Content:

In this Diary, I’m excited to share a wide range of ideas and exercises to support a more personal and meaningful art-making experience. This potent topic is all about using the richness of your life and your unique experiences as fuel to fan the flames of your creative expression.

 

Video and audio content includes:

  • Gathering Meaningful Inspiration: The Making It Personal Challenge
  • Live Painting with Flora: Parts One-Six
  • Reflections and Reminders
  • Creative Exercise: Creating Personal Stamps with Lynzee Lynx
  • Couch Chat with Orly Avineri
  • Bonus Couch Chat with Lisa Kagan
  • Telling My Stories Through Paint: A Personal Reflection
  • Guided Meditation with Lynzee Lynx: Discovering Personal Inspiration Through Guided Visualization
  • Diving Deeper Podcast: Q + A with Flora

 

Written content includes:

  • Inspiration Archiving: Collecting Imagery
  • Inspiration Archiving: Collecting Color
  • Writing Prompts with Lisa Kagan
  • A Poem: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration by Vera Navarian
  • Resources to support your journey towards Making it Personal
  • Spotify Playlist: Making It Personal

 

Details:

  • Studio Diaries are accessible through the  at the top right-hand corner on this website.
  • Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.
  • All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

 

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

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Making It Personal

In this Diary, I’m excited to share a wide range of ideas and exercises to support a more personal and meaningful art making experience. This potent topic is all about using the richness of your life and your unique experiences as fuel to fan the flames of your creative expression.

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Studio Diaries:
Creative Business with Heart

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

Creative Business with Heart

Content:

This Diary is all about Creative Business with Heart. We will dive into my favorite practical and intuitive tools to support a soulful, sustainable and successful creative business.

Video and audio content includes:
▪ Heart to Heart with Flora
▪ Live Painting with Flora: Parts One-Seven
▪ Creative Exercise: Your Creative Manifesto with Anya Hankin
▪ Couch Chat with Kelly Rae Roberts
▪ Bonus Couch Chat with Kaya Singer
▪ Diving Deeper Podcast: Q + A with Flora

Written content includes:
▪ Flora’s Top 15 Biz Tips for Painters
▪ Tips and techniques from Jennifer Lee and Alena Hennessey
▪ Resources for All Things Business
▪ Spotify Playlist: Creative Business with Heart

Details:

▪ Studio Diaries are accessible through the  at the top right-hand corner on this website.

▪ Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.

▪ All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

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Creative Business with Heart

This Diary is all about Creative Business with Heart. We’ll dive into my favorite practical and intuitive tools to support a soulful, sustainable and successful creative business.

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Studio Diaries:
The Power of Play!

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

The Power of Play!

Content:

For this Diary, we’re exploring the Power of Play and we’re shaking things up, moving quickly, exploring uncharted territory and remembering that PLAY might just be the most important part of this creative process.

Video and audio content includes:

  • Speed Painting: Part One
  • Speed Painting: Part Two
  • Speed Painting: Part Three
  • Creative Exercise: Alcohol Inks on Yupo
  • Creative Exercise: Art Play with Kids!
  • Creative Exercise: Natural Brushes
  • A Walk in the Woods: Playing, Collecting, Honoring
  • Forest Chat with Anya Hankin
  • Couch Chat with Stephanie Corfee
  • Diving Deeper Podcast: Q + A with Flora

 

Written content includes:

  • Introducing Squeak Carnwath
  • Three Playful Videos
  • Playful Prompts
  • Spotify Playlist: The Power of Play

 

Details:

  • Studio Diaries are accessible through the Log In Area at the top right-hand corner on this website.
  • Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.
  • All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

 

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

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The Power of Play

For this Diary, we’re exploring the Power of Play and we’re shaking things up, moving quickly, exploring uncharted territory and remembering that PLAY might just be the most important part of this creative process.

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Studio Diaries:
How to Finish a Painting

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

How to Finish a Painting

Content:

For this Diary, we dive into a super hot topic that you’ve been asking for. The burning question is: “How the heck do I finish a brave intuitive painting?” In this Diary, I’ll share some wonderfully tangible principles to keep in mind as you’re working on bringing your paintings together.

Video and audio content includes:
▪ Heart to Heart with Flora
▪ Creating Cohesion with Color
▪ Creating Cohesion with Design Elements
▪ Adding Dynamic Pop with Contrast
▪ Evaluating Paint Quality
▪ Stepping Back and Final Touches
▪ Palette Cleaning and a First Layer
▪ Taking a Closer Look at Three Finished Paintings
▪ Couch Chat with Jessica Swift
▪ Diving Deeper Podcast: Q + A with Flora

Written content includes:
▪ I Know My Creative Project is Finished When…
▪ Resources for Finishing Projects
▪ Spotify Playlist: How to Finish

Details:

▪ Studio Diaries are accessible through the  at the top right-hand corner on this website.

▪ Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.

▪ All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

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How to Finish a Painting

For this Diary, we dive into a super hot topic that you’ve been asking for. The burning question is: “How the heck do I finish a brave intuitive painting?” In this Diary, I’ll share some wonderfully tangible principles to keep in mind as you’re working on bringing your paintings together.

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Studio Diaries:
Making Peace With Your Inner Critic

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

Making Peace With Your Inner Critic

Content:

We’re exploring Making Peace with Your Inner Critic, and this Diary is brimming with loving conversations, soul-searching exercises, personal reflections, supportive resources, and a booty shaking playlist that might just make you forget those pesky voices in your head all together — even for just a song.

Video and audio content includes:
▪ Writing Our Stories with Flora and Lynx
▪ Creating Affirmation Cards with Flora and Lynx
▪ Live Painting Layer One: A Painted Letter
▪ Live Painting Layer Two: Eyes Closed Finger Painting
▪ Live Painting Layer Three: Letting It Out + Embracing “Ugly”
▪ Live Painting Layer Four: Transformation
▪ Couch Chat with Shiloh Sophia
▪ Diving Deeper Podcast: Q + A with Flora
▪ Late Night Reflections on the Inner Critic with Melody Ross and Orly Avineri

Written content includes:
▪ “A Magical Golden Key” by Pema Chodron
▪ Resources for Making Peace with Your Inner Critic
▪ Three Inspiring Talks
▪ Poetry by Marianne Williamson
▪ Spotify Playlist: Making Peace with Your Inner Critic

Details:

▪ Studio Diaries are accessible through the  at the top right-hand corner on this website.

▪ Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.

▪ All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

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Making Peace With Your Inner Critic

We’re exploring Making Peace with Your Inner Critic, and this Diary is brimming with loving conversations, soul-searching exercises, personal reflections, supportive resources, and a booty shaking playlist that might just make you forget those pesky voices in your head all together — even for just a song.

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Studio Diaries:
The Art of Simplicity

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

The Art of Simplicity

Content:

The theme of this Diary is exploring the Art of Simplicity and we’ll be touching on a wide variety of ways to incorporate simplicity into the layers of your paintings and the layers of your life.

▪ Creative Exercise Part One: Eighty Percent
▪ Creative Exercise Part Two: Simplifying Tools
▪ Creative Exercise Part Three: Simplifying Shapes
▪ Creative Exercise Part Four: Simplifying Color
▪ Couch Chat with Robyn Kautz
▪ Bonus Couch Chat with Jen Goff
▪ Diving Deeper Podcast: Q + A with Flora
▪ Morning Meditation with Lacy Young

Written content includes:
▪ Artists Who Rock the Art of Simplicity
▪ Resources to Support Simple Living
▪ Three Simple Studio Snack Recipes
▪ Poetry by Nayyirah Waheed
▪ Spotify Playlist: Art of Simplicity

Details:

▪ Studio Diaries are accessible through the  at the top right-hand corner on this website.

▪ Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.

▪ All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

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The Art of Simplicity

The theme of this Diary is exploring the Art of Simplicity and we’ll be touching on a wide variety of ways to incorporate simplicity into the layers of your paintings and the layers of your life.

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Studio Diaries:
Exploring Dynamic Contrast

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

Exploring Dynamic Contrast

Content:

The theme of this Diary is all about Exploring Dynamic Contrast, and it’s packed with Creative Exercises!

▪ Creative Exercise Part One: Exploring Color Contrast
▪ Creative Exercise Part Two: Exploring Value Contrast
▪ Creative Exercise Part Three: Exploring Mark Making Contrast
▪ Creative Exercise Part Four: Exploring Texture Contrast
▪ Creative Exercise Part Five: Creating Personal Mandalas
▪ Painting Session Incorporating Contrast Principles
▪ Couch Chat with Jeremy Szopinkski + the “Super Brush!”
▪ Diving Deeper Podcast: Q + A with Flora

Written content includes:
▪ More Ways to Explore Contrast: Size, Shape, Mood, Speed, Quiet + Active Areas, Materials and Scale
▪ Exploring Contrast Off the Canvas
▪ Photo Scavenger Hunt
▪ Spotify Playlist: Exploring Dynamic Contrast

Details:

▪ Studio Diaries are accessible through the  at the top right-hand corner on this website.

▪ Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.

▪ All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

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Exploring Dynamic Contrast

The theme of this Diary is all about Exploring Dynamic Contrast, and it’s packed with five Creative Exercises! We’ll explore different ways to work with contrast through the use of color, value, mark, texture, size, speed, mood, medium and scale. Whether it’s subtle or extreme, consciously pushing and pulling elements of contrast in a painting has the power to visually ignite the canvas in all sorts of interesting and powerful ways.

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Studio Diaries:
Collaboration

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

Collaboration

Content:

The theme of this Diary is Collaboration – one of my favorite topics!

Videos and Audio Tracks include:

▪ Creative Exercise Part One: Painting Collaboration with Flora + Jennifer Mercede
▪ Creative Exercise Part Two: Mixed Media Collaboration with Flora + Lynzee Lynx
▪ Mixed Media Collaboration with Flora + Lynzee Lynx (High Speed Version)
▪ Painting Session + Live Music with Flora + Cristina Orbe
▪ Couch Chat with Cristina Orbe
▪ Bonus Couch Chat with Mati Rose
▪ Partner Yoga with Flora + Jonathan
▪ Diving Deeper Podcast: Q + A with Flora

Written content includes:
▪ Creating a Strong Foundation for Collaboration
▪ Ways to Create Collaboratively
▪ We vs. Me: Collaborating in Life
▪ Resources for Collaboration
▪ Herakut: Featured Collaborators
▪ Spotify Playlist: Collaboration

Details:

▪ Studio Diaries are accessible through the  at the top right-hand corner on this website.

▪ Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.

▪ All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

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Collaboration

The theme of this Diary is Collaboration – one of my favorite topics! Collaborating provides a powerful way to shake things up, welcome new ideas, and practice the art of letting go, trusting and using your voice. There are so many ways to work collaboratively, and I’m happy to share a wide range of resources, creative exercises and couch chats on this topic.

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Studio Diaries:
Finding Your Style

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

Finding Your Style

Content:

The theme of this Diary is Finding Your Style, and it is dedicated to Frida Kahlo, David Bowie, and Iris Apfel.

Videos and Audio Tracks include:

▪ Creative Exercise Part One: Gathering Inspiration Via Artists
▪ Creative Exercise Part Two: Gathering Inspiration Via Photos
▪ Creative Exercise Part Three: Gathering Inspiration Via Writing
▪ Painting Session: Incorporating New Inspiration
▪ Couch Chat with Pixie Lighthorse
▪ Bonus Couch Chat with Orly Avineri
▪ Diving Deeper Podcast: Q + A with Flora
▪ Audio Lesson from Leslie Helpert, Musician and Voice Teacher
▪ Audio Roundtable Discussion with Past Workshop Students

Written content includes:
▪ My Journey + Early Work
▪ My Teachers
▪ Inspiration vs. Copying
▪ A Monthly Painting Challenge
▪ Spotify Playlist: Finding Your Style

Details:

▪ Studio Diaries are accessible through the  at the top right-hand corner on this website.

▪ Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.

▪ All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

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Finding Your Style

The theme of this Diary is Finding Your Style, and it is dedicated to Frida Kahlo, David Bowie, and Iris Apfel. This Diary includes a variety of exercises, conversations and ideas about finding your own style, along with a bit of my own personal journey as an artist. I hope the culmination of this content inspires you to play and explore your way closer to your own unique style.

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Studio Diaries:
Staying Inspired

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

Staying Inspired

Content:

The theme of this Diary is Staying Inspired. Videos and Audio Tracks include:

▪ Creative Exercise Part One: New Tools New Marks
▪ Creative Exercise Part Two: Mixing Color
▪ Painting Session: Incorporating New Tools and Colors
▪ Couch Chat with Mary Beth Bonfiglio
▪ Couch Chat with Robin Jackson
▪ Diving Deeper: An hour of Q + A with Flora
▪ Live Music with Robin Jackson
▪ Ira Glass: On Creativity
▪ Audio: A Moving Meditation

Written content includes:
▪ Committing to Your Creativity + Staying Accountable
▪ Your Wonderful Wisdom
▪ Resources for Staying Inspired
▪ Spotify Playlist: Staying Inspired

Details:

▪ Studio Diaries are accessible through the  at the top right-hand corner on this website.

▪ Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.

▪ All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

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Staying Inspired

The theme of this Diary is Staying Inspired and it explores the questions of “How do we get inspired to show up in the first place? and “How do we stay inspired when we hit those inevitable creative blocks?” In this Diary, you’ll find some fresh new ways to keep your inspiration flowing.

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Studio Diaries:
Nourishing

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

Nourishing

Content:

The theme of this Diary is Nourishing.

Videos include:

▪ Creative Exercise With Tips for Painting Smaller Work
▪ Live Painting Session — Watch me Paint 15 Mini Paintings!
▪ Couch Chat with Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant of Be Nourished
▪ Diving Deeper: An hour of Q + A
▪ Gentle Nourishing Movement with Robyn Kautz
▪ Assembling Simple and Beautiful Platters with Shannon Sims
▪ Putting Together a Creative Travel Kit with Lynzee Lynx
▪ Tips for Taking Stock, Getting Clear and Nourishment Made Simple

Written content includes:
▪ Getting Clear + Taking Stock
▪ Nourishment Made Simple
▪ Variety of Nourishing Resources
▪ Spotify Playlist: Nourishing

Details:

▪ Studio Diaries are accessible through the  at the top right-hand corner on this website.

▪ Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.

▪ All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

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Nourishing

The theme of this Diary is Nourishing and it’s all about tapping into your own flavor of personal nourishment through creative exercises, movement, nourishing food, and resources to reflect on your own relationship to nourishment. Plus, there’s a juicy live painting session!

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Studio Diaries:
Letting Go

$36.00

STUDIO DIARIES:

Letting Go

Content:

The theme of this Diary is Letting Go.

Videos include:

▪Creative Lesson: Ninety Degree Exercise
▪Live Painting Session with Flora
▪Couch Chat with Jesse Reno
▪Diving Deeper Q + A with Flora
▪Altar Making with Flora and Lynzee Lynx
▪Yoga with Suniti Dernovsek

Written content includes:
▪ Letting Go + Letting In
▪ Practical Ways to Clear Out + Free Up
▪ Letting Go with Intention
▪ Feature Poem by Rev. Safire Rose
▪ Spotify Playlist: Letting Go

Details:

▪ Studio Diaries are accessible through the  at the top right-hand corner on this website.

▪ Your account will be billed when you purchase a Diary, and you will have access to that Diary right away.

▪ All purchased Diaries are yours to keep for life through your account.

Each Diary has been lovingly created with the intention of supporting and inspiring you to stay active on your own creative path while honoring body, mind and spirit. Studio Diaries can be enjoyed individually a la carte, or as a year’s worth of rich and enlivening content. 

 

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Letting Go

The theme of this Diary is Letting Go and it’s about releasing what no longer works, inviting in new possibilities and staying flexible along the way. We’ll explore the topic of letting go from a few different angles though the videos and resources for this Diary.