Monochrome and a bit of color

However spring is all around, some of my latest drawings are monochrome, and it was fun to do.
But first some color.
At the start of this month ( april) lots of yellows from the coltsfoot and pilewort were all around ,
the willows started to blossom too, (we call the flowers  "katjes"),giving early spring a lot of color:

                                                    © Gertjan Velthuizen



At the start of April there was a very nice sketchcrawl in "Den Haag", organized by the urban sketchers Den Haag. We had great weather and a lot of beautyfull sketchers !
Among some color sketches I made a monochrome one too:

 © Gertjan Velthuizen

I had fun with that , so during the rest of the month  I made some more  drawings in ink, with a wash of the same ink:

 © Gertjan Velthuizen

 I like a brown  for my nature drawings and I used a Faber-Castell Pitt-artist pen with sepia ink for a long time. It is getting empty however , so I bought a new brown ink ( Noodlers bulletproof brown #41) and a new pen to carry it (TWSBI ECO-T). I love both !!
I was on a fishing trip to Germany were I drew  this stairs to the bridge over the river we fished (Kyll , at Kyllburg)

 © Gertjan Velthuizen

 At  the "Waalbos" I did a little landscape with this lovely ink!
For the ink-wash I used a waterbrush and with that I took the ink right of the nib of the pen.

 © Gertjan Velthuizen