Be aware Severe weather expected in your area this afternoon. Stay informed and follow local guidance.
An inclusive space for membership engagement, the blOAAg is a section of the OAA Website for posting content and ideas to share with the entire OAA community. The views and opinions expressed in these posts are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Ontario Association of Architects or the OAA Council. You must be an Architect, Intern architect, Student Associate, Life, Honorary, or Retired Member to post to the blOAAg. A username and password is required for access to this service. Log in here.
2022/AUG/03
Lowell Lo
Scadding Court Community Centre at Chinatown (above). I connected with several recent Art Collage graduates during the pandemic. We were eager to meet to 'en plein air' sketch. I brought my...
2022/AUG/02
Sam A. Leika-Shukor
Figure 9 (above) - A Proposal of Housing Project with Retail and Offices - Flower is optional! Art work - Ink pen on paper with Copic markers. I’ve been very interested lately in designing pleasant...
2022/JUL/28
How I think sketching is an interative and innovative tool rather than a mechanical reflection of a ready-made vision. Figure 1 (above) - Face-lift to an Existing Mall. Ink on tracing paper. I chose...
2022/JUL/27
Darius Gumushdjian
Undertaking complexity and detail by sketching is challenging yet perhaps we need to approach it rather simply. Sketching sometimes has to come from a place where our hand moves, sometimes habitually...
2022/JUL/22
Farzam Mohajer
I took up watercolour this past year and to practice I thought to draw a few buildings. I prefer drawings/photos of buildings being inhabited but I didn’t want to faff around drawing tiny people in...
2022/JUL/20
Nolan Bentley
Our seats positioned us on axis with the first base line and the end of the dome. Blue sky, blue seat and green turf made for a simple palette...
2022/JUL/18
Zoey Chao
While people's lives have slowly come back to normal as before 2020, international traveling still is considered risky and such a hustle to enjoy. I want to use this unique time in history as an...
2022/JUL/13
Douglas Lawrence
There is nothing that quite compares to the pleasure and intensity of sketching Plein Air, losing track of time and getting totally lost in the experience. Only later does the dehydration, sunburn...
Sahil M. Samnani
"These sketches are a compilation of work related to custom home projects which I was part of. I completed them...