"Rainbow"

Today's Scratch is a portrait of one of our Rhode Island Reds, "Rainbow."

Color Scratch!

Today's Scratches are a bit of an attempt to do color-- at least a color outline-- using colored pencils.

I saw our Rhode Island Red, "Scarlet", dust bathing, looking like a big ball of feathers, so I did a quick line drawing and added a little tone to her:

Our Silkie hen, "Holly" was next, and she was a bit more difficult. She is a very light-toned Buff Silkie, and so it's hard to get the color right. I used three different pencils on her outlines...