New Website for My Prints

I have another website!! This one is devoted exclusively to my prints-on-demand -- no original paintings. The site is presented by the printing service, Fine Art America.

https://mark-junge.pixels.com

UPDATE:

Well, the website doesn't appear to be working just yet. As an alternative, please go directly to my page on the website of the company that produces the prints

Mark Junge Wall Art for Sale - Fine Art America

I hope you'll take a look and remember: the gift-giving holidays (Christmas and Hanukkah) will be here in less than two months!! The prints (which can ordered framed) and other items are very affordable and would make awesome presents for loved ones or even for yourself! Or both!!

So see wotcha tink, and feel free to order as many prints or other products as you'd like. 😄

Mark Junge

Colorado Autumn

Well!! I FINALLY finished a new painting! It took me TWO MONTHS to complete this 11" x 14" (27.9cm x 35.6cm) work!!!

Not that this piece was overly hard or complicated. I just had a lot of other stuff to deal with, which I won't bore you with. It's hard to be prolific when you don't have time!

Anyway, this is an image inspired by Mount Sneffels in Colorado. However, I took a lot of liberties with it, so it's mostly imaginary. But NO A.I.!!! It features some jagged mountain peaks seen in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado in autumn, which aspens blind the viewers with their fluorescent yellow leaves.

I had considered adding a family of mule deer, but frankly -- I needed to finish it and probably could have done more. So -- just a bald eagle in flight.

Enjoy!!

Mark Junge

Realm of the Bighorn

 Working on and off as time and energy permitted, I finally was able to finish a new painting! A scene in Joshua Tree National Park, California.

A bighorn sheep ram temporarily left the relative safety of the rocks and mountain to browse on vegetation on the flatland. The ram is momentarily distracted by the raucous cawing of a flock of ravens, where one raven undoubtedly has food -- and the other birds want it!

I might mention -- this ram doesn't actually live in the Park. He's one of the bighorns I photographed at the Living Desert Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Palm Desert, CA.

I hope you like the painting!

Mark Junge

www.MarkJunge.com or www.SouthwestSpaces.com

Smoke Tree

The latest (finally)!!! Smoke Tree, 8" x 10" / 20cm x 25cm, acrylic on panel.

It's obviously summer, after the smoke tree has bloomed. The yellow-flowered desert marigold starts blossoming in the spring, but it can continue to flower throughout the summer. This particular smoke tree was located near the visitor center at the San Jacinto-Santa Rosa Mountains National Monument south of Palm Desert, CA. The scene gave me a feeling of solitude, maybe even loneliness. I had hoped to capture that feeling in the painting, but I'm not so sure I accomplished it. If anything, the desert marigold makes the view seem a little friendlier than I originally intended.

Oh, well. Enjoy!!

Mark Junge

www.MarkJunge.com or www.SouthwestSpaces.com

In the Land of Giants

My latest painting: In the Land of Giants, 11" x 14" / 27.9cm x 35.6cm, acrylic on panel.

This particular version of a coastal redwood forest is a bit light on tree density, but I was mostly focused on how Lady Bird Johnson (in Redwood National Park, California) looked the first time we saw it, when a light fog rolled in and the air was luminous in the morning sun. It felt like stepping into heaven!!

I'm not sure I entirely captured the look we saw -- I took photos, but they don't really show the magic of that time and place. I may try again sometime, but we'll see if I can come up with it.

Note the humans in the lower right. A person spreading his/her arms around part of the tree girth is a common sight. They are BIG!!

Mark Junge

www.MarkJunge.com or www.SouthwestSpaces.com

The Sonoita Mountains

New painting: The Sonoita Mountains (I've also seen it spelled Sonoyta -- I don't know if both spellings are OK or if one of them is wrong). The size is 8" x 10" / 20cm x 25cm.

The view shows the Sonoita mountains of Mexico as seen from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona. These are my favorite desert mountains to paint -- I love the ruggedness of them. To me, they're reminiscent of a great ship sailing the desert seas. They're awesome!

So, what's next? Possibly a scene featuring the coastal redwoods of northern California in a light fog. I haven't entirely decided yet.

Enjoy!!

Mark Junge

www.SouthwestSpaces.com or www.MarkJunge.com

A View of San Gorgonio

 Finally!! I finished a painting that I've been working on for months. Not that it was a hard painting to do, I just didn't have the time or energy to pour myself into it the way I used to. Must be all part of getting old, I guess.

Anyway, here is San Gorgonio. This is a view of one of the two mountain ranges that make this area a desert. I imagined the scene to appear the way the town of Yucca Valley may have looked before the town existed.

 
I always loved the way the Mojave Desert looks in the spring -- snow on the mountains (not here, so we don't have to deal with it!), and wildflowers blooming on the lowlands. ("Low" is relative -- we're at 3,000 feet elevation). In a place with little color, wildflowers are always a welcome sight.

And, of course, one of my favorite things about seeing and living in the desert is all that open space -- "the vast spaces of the Southwest," as my tagline reads. I'm not claustrophobic, but for some reason, all that space and distance means so much to me. It's almost a touch of the infinite!

Enjoy, and I hope to talk with you again soon.

Mark Junge

www.MarkJunge.com or www.SouthwestSpaces.com