Light Sketch 1: Daylight Observation

9/9 11:30 am

9/16 11:30am

9/23 11:30am

All Day observation

9/30 9:30am

9/30 11:30am

9/30 2:30am

9/30 5:30am

Observation Summary:

This window opens up to my living room and faces the South which allows for daylight to flood through the space during the day time.  Early in September the sun was still higher in the sky because the autumn equinox had not occurred.  During the earlier days of this sketch series you can see that the light floods into the space, lighting the floor and couch and casting shadows from objects.  The shadows are longer and larger.  As you flash through my sketches you can see in the days getting later into September there is less light illuminating the floor and more shadows throughout the space.  Light now does not stretch across the space but is more direct and bright in areas closer to the window.  Shadows become smaller and more direct behind objects (such as the lamp on the side table).  On 9/30 I sketched the whole day varying around 2 hr intervals.  This day you can see that when the light was the lowest in the mornings and afternoon more light flooded into the place. Shadows were cast further away from the window.  When midday approached shadows became stretched but as the sun went down the shadows were smaller. The space is brighter in the afternoons than in the mornings and I think this is because the angle in which the sun hits the window as it goes down.