I used three oil paint colors, Cobalt Blue, Quinacrodone Red, Cadmium Yellow, and Zinc White to mix all of these colors.  It is amazing how many different colors a person can get from just three!  The three colors are on the left hand side.  Then I mixed the yellow with the red to get orange.  I mixed and mixed to get other variations.  This is a good exercise to use before you go out plein aire painting with a new palette of colors.  I am really suprised at the dark values I could achieve!

     It was in the 90's here in Maine all day and night again!  I closely watched my 10 year old golden retrievers.  It was cooler 80s in the house until 1:30.  I cleaned!  The house was a bit of a disaster as I have spent most of my time painting lately!  At 1:30 Daisy and Duke both came up to me with sad eyes and long faces.  I took them to Sears Island for a swim!  I put on a pair of shorter shorts and a tank top!  I waded into the ocean.  I just stood there for an hour.  So did Duke.  He was confused as to why there were no frogs at the ocean.  At Craig's pond there has been many frogs for him to chase.  Daisy put one of the frogs into a coma.  A boy screamed he caught one, the coma frog!  He brought it over to his mom to see.  She said for him to get rid of that dead frog! 

  For the last week Daisy and Duke have been celebrating painting sales with their "Frosty Paws" dog icecream.  You can buy this dog treat in the freezer section of the ice cream department in the grocrey store!  There is no sugar in this ice cream.  Daisy and Duke just love it!  I hope it helps them through this terrible heat wave!  Most Maine residents have no air conditioners in their houses.  Schools are closing tomorrow!  We are expecting a hurricane on top of this! 

  This is my new plastic red bird house.  This is also the view to my backyard.  The body of water is the penobscot east channel.  The island in the distance is Verona.  My new bird house has been us many days.  No birds have been eating the sunflower seeds.  Hopefully soon a few birds will discover my bird house!

     Get out and paint!