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I painted this watercolor painting of France as an ode to this wonderful country where I like to camp.
France is a beloved country for the Dutch to celebrate their summer vacation. Mostly at the campsite or in the beautiful hotels on the Côte d'Azur. I have discovered France quite well over the years and I thought it would be nice to paint a colorful watercolor of it.
The artwork is painted in watercolor with both the wet-on-dry and the wet-on-wet technique on a 300 gram watercolor paper. I provided this map of France with the country name and the names of all Provinces.
I did the painting of this card by feeling. The work has therefore become an expressionist work of art. I did, however, take little account of the use of color at the coastlines and inland.
The coastline has an azure color and the interior a mix of yellow, green, red and brown tones.
WorldMapsShop is a design studio where artistic cartographic illustrations and paintings are created by graphic designer, photographer and painter Ricardo Bouman.
In his studio and workshop, he works with both analogue mediums 'paints and inks' and modern digital mediums 'vector line drawings, typography and proprietary photographic images'.
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