BLAST

 

Blast

Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas

36”x48”

2021

I did this painting back in 2021 feeling the impact of the Pandemic and the loss of my job.  I feel that it’s been “updated in relevance” with the current lack of humanity being displayed in our country and around the world.  A mutual sense of disappointment! 

At The MET, The American Wing

 

The Toilers of the Sea

Albert Pinkham Ryder

Oil on Canvas

1885

Gulf Stream

Winslow Homer

Oil on Canvas 

1906

Winter, Monhegan Island

Rockwell Kent

Oil on Canvas 

1904

At the Met today looking at some of the most iconic American paintings in the collection that I have only seen as photographs since I was in undergraduate art school. 

In the Met literature on the painting, The Toilers of the Sea, it says that a sea-captain friend once observed that Ryder would study the moon on the Hudson River to capture "moonlight effects."  I like this, having just stood at Linden Terrace at the fort overlooking the Hudson.  Beautiful.

Drawing

 

Working on my next children’s book

Stay tuned!

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.