Week #9 - Jackie - Comforting Moment's at my Tia's house

This week I went home for the holiday break and I got to spend much needed quality time with my family :)

During this break, my aunt and I went to go check on on my great aunt’s house since her, my mom, and my Grandparent’s are in Mexico for a family event. I absolutely love my aunt’s house since she essentially lives in a greenhouse due to all the plants that she owns. Inside of her house there are a whole bunch of old family photos hanging on the walls along with her personal paintings of nature scenes which give off an overall feeling especially due to the warm tones presented on the family portraits which I’ll show later on in this post. 


As I was watering the garden, I looked over and saw this beautiful soft grayish-blue to creamsicle orange sunset that made the San Fernando Valley glow. The mountains were silhouetted and had a slight purple tint to them which made for an interesting sight, it also helped cool down the entire visual. Although the sunset uses a very warm color, everything is cooled down and not as saturated making it look like a cool fall sunset rather than looking like a summer one which I think can be more on the vibrant side of things. The green from the plants and the white from the patio furniture and the pergola although make for a beautiful scene in person, they do take away from the sunset so I took a close up picture of it, in order to show the colors as well as the blending up close. 




Next, I wanted to mention the nice display of family photos and portraits in the house which I noticed all have an amberish tint to them. Whenever I have the opportunity to design a flashback scene in a play, that vintage tint in the first picture (below) is what I will almost always reference in the overall composition. This amber is what I associate with comfort and is a visual example of the words, "good ol' days". The second picture, is my Grandfather's black and white portrait. I was studying the lighting in the portrait, and I had a rather difficult time trying to decipher whether it is leaning towards the warmer or the cooler side. You can see that the lighting is split down the middle at a diagonal with the bottom side looking warm and the top part looking cooler or gray, so my question is, is there a background light creating that shadow/effect in my Grandfather's portrait? However, the photographer created a nice contour effect by lighting the center of my Grandfather's face and leaving the shadows on the sides and under the chin to sculpt





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  1. Lonnie AlcarazNovember 29, 2021 at 7:29 AM

    As usual, nicely detailed post :). Reminds me of my grandparents house - cherish while it is still there, my grandparents moved out of the house my grandfather built in costa mesa in the late 80's and I still have vivid images of that house and would love to see it again. It is where i fell in love with light. Warm ambers are so tricky, they can be beautiful and reminiscent in the way you describe but also turn muddy and ugly if you are not careful.

    You did have one incomplete thought in the 1st paragraph - "The mountains were silhouetted and had a slight purple tint to them which made for an interesting." not sure what kind of interesting ??

    Nice post

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