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
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