Peter Aitkens

Acrylic and Coloured Pencil on Indian Rag Paper    12 x 8 inches       2012

This is the final image in a series of 20 paintings that were begun  in London outside Tate Modern on August 14,2012. I started to draw at 6:45 pm and finished drawing at 10:00 pm, with no breaks. I was fascinated by the grove of Baltic Birch planted outside the Tate especially when the lights came on at 8: 30. I drew in graphite and after getting the composition down I took a photo of each scene for future reference.Then back in my studio in Montreal, using the photos as  memory aids, I competed the paintings using acrylic paint and coloured pencils. To view the entire series click on City Paintings in Categories to the right of the page.

Acrylic and coloured pencil on Indian rag paper   8 x 12 inches     2012