Quarantine & Cattails

Every spring for the last twenty-some-odd years I've stopped somewhere along some road side to grab a few cattail stalks to make india ink pens.
It's fairly easy to do...grab the driest ones, fairly thin, and carve the tip into a point with a utility or x-acto knife.  You can also run the tip of your knife through the tip of your pen and split it in the middle like a calligraphy pen for even better ink welling.

I decided to make a small stack of cards using watercolors for the background, and the cattail ink pen for a drawing on top.