New Painting

 

Forgotten Wind

Acrylic, Pencil, Ink and Organic Materials on Canvas

30” X 48”

2025

Selfie of me working on Forgotten Wind on site.  A really windy day in Erie, Colorado. Painting on the East Side Art Institute property.  The painting and easel both getting blown over numerous times despite adding anchoring weight. Various ground materials are now incorporated into the painting.  

The Beekeeper

My new children’s s book The Beekeeper is now available.  Follow the link to my website below for more information and where to purchase.

https://flloydsobczak.com/

Space Walk - A Sketch In Time

 

While I was working on this quick sketch I thought back to when I was a kid in Buffalo looking up from our front porch and watching with complete wonder in October 1957 when Sputnik blinked by in the night sky over us.  Total silence from both kids and adults.  This was a far reaching, new event for our world. It was amazing and sparked a lifelong enthusiasm in me for all things space. Who would have thought where this would lead.

Art Worker / Art Assistant

 

I came across this video on Van Neistat's Spiritied Man Youtube channel. It struck a cord since I was and art worker back in the mid 1980's to Vitto Acconci as he was working at Artpark in Lewiston, NY building an under and ground level installation called Sub-Urb.  At the time we were called art assistants.  This proved to be one of my most memorable art experiences.  Vitto was amazing, charming, funny and completely devoted to the project at hand and very grateful to the people helping him construct this massive work.  Amazing summer.  His lead assistant John Tagiuri was also an amazing creative.  Getting this project from concept to reality with Vitto and John under challenging conditions was one of the most exciting events for me as a graduate art student.

Phantom Peaks - New Painting

Peaks Climbed, Peaks Remembered, Peaks Only Imagined

Left Behind

Left Behind

30” x 48”

Acrylic on Canvas

2023

Painting En Plein Air and Then Some

Working on a painting of an aging, well-used metal and wood shed on the East Side Art Institute property near my home in Colorado.  Starting with a sketch of the shed and then getting that image onto the canvas before the canvas was hauled out to the site and the actual painting begun.

It’s a larger canvas, 30”x48” so the process needed to be a bit fast since it being a hot day and the acrylic paint I was using had to be applied rapidly before everything dried.

That was it after working on it for two separate days.  Now for a session in the studio.  

 Almost there.  I’ll go back through it and add some detail.