atc's

Let me start this blog post by wishing you all a happy - and creative - new year. Okay, not very original, but it is the time of the year :-)
Today I worked on some atc's for AFA. This swap is about hand drawn / hand painted bamboo. I have a couple of bamboo in my garden, but I googled some pictures to be more certain that my drawings would look like real bamboo. I started with making these pencil drawings:
They don't look too bad, but they needed some color. I used water color because I like the way I can blend colors with this. This is the result:

Tomorrow they will cross the pond to the swap hostess.