New Mexico

NEW - Field Arts Bootcamp at Ghost Ranch in NM

Casa del Sol, our private lodge in the backcountry of the famous Ghost Ranch where Georgia O’Keeffe did much of her work.

Join us October 20-23, 2024 in New Mexico’s legendary Georgia O’Keefe country, at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu for four days and three nights of pure immersion in field arts: nature journaling, field sketching and watercolor, animal tracking, birdwatching, reading the weather, using field optics, found pigments and inks, and much more.

Imagine the luxury of doing nothing but exploring wild nature and journaling in a cohort of like-minded fellow journalers . . . and with customized one-on-one feedback and skills-specific tutoring throughout the whole experience.

The Field Arts Boot Camp is suitable for beginners to advanced journalers, as your Boot Camp experience is tailored to your appropriate level. Nurturing, inquisitive, and expansive.

No excuses. Just pure nature journaling growth and mindset.

What’s included:

  • One-on-one attention in areas in which you would like to improve;

  • Skills-specific mini-tutorials in field arts such as sketching, watercolor, nature writing, animal tracking, reading the weather, and using optics;

  • Accommodations in at the legendary Ghost Ranch in the remote and private Casa del Sol lodge, with four different pricing options;

  • Shuttle from Albuquerque, NM, to and from the ranch, departing at 8:00 am October 20 (Sunday) and returning late October 23 (Wednesday)—we will have suggested lodging options in Albuquerque near the airport;

  • Wine, beer, and other beverages and snacks happy hour each evening;

  • All meals from lunch on Sunday through lunch on Wednesday;

  • Use of Swarovski Optics binoculars throughout the Bootcamp.

Pricing from $895 per person for camping option.



Field Arts Overland Journey — 3,584 miles and 50 journal pages

From the little cabin along the Yellowstone River, near Greycliff, Montana.

Just home from a month of overland travel teaching my Wyoming Field Arts Bootcamp and at the Northern Rockies Nature Journaling Conference in Montana. It was truly a blessing to spend so much time exploring new habitats, meeting and teaching so many wonderful people, weathering some intense storms (including a tree falling on my camp!), and recording my discoveries in my journal. Fifty pages' worth!

- 7 states

- 3,585.4 miles

- 15 days of camping (in 10 locations, nearly all by rivers!)

- 27 days

- 50 journal pages!

Photo courtesy Mary Jo Watters, Wyoming Field Arts Bootcamp July 2022

Finished demonstrations showing “regular” landscape view and an “imagined” cut-a-way view showing the water and creek bottom (and fish!).