James Shefik
A product of constantly changing subjects, materials and techniques used for each new piece is also a constantly changing learning curve. These photos document my efforts.
1st Strike arrow build
Internment arrow
Internment arrow placed
Last Goose before aging
block aging and lamp receptacles
Internment painting start
Paint complete
Pride before aging
Pollock’s first paint
Last Goose framing
Bending faux neon for Last Goose Cafe sign by successively adding blocking to maintain desired shape. “Neon” material is aluminum armature wire inside painted vinyl tubing.
Hat for sculpture “Hollow” nearing completion
Rough body shaping
Starting hilt of battle sword
Pride Cleaners aging test
Pollock used Devoe House paint
Carved hand and shotgun
Faux metal bar on Pollock’s paint
Detail paint cans
First drilled holes for faux shotgun blast
Collapsing maquette study for sculpture “Hollow”
Inside of body for Hollow
“Hollow” body sculpting complete
Nose with attachment dowel
“Hollow’s” interior rope routing
Parts painted
Sword handle complete
Standing headless body
Shaping Grebe decoy bodies
Four stages of shaping Hairy Neck Beetles, first shape being done with a scroll saw
First amber shellac coat and deep raw umber dyed heads
Grebe feather layout
Rough shaping complete
First coat frog decoys
Front curve of Over Burdened Radio Flyer project
Curve piece to make corner
All the pieces together to make the Flyer body. 27 pieces in all, pine, poplar and MDF were used.
Spray painted red coat
I applied Yellow Frog tape to backing material, printed design, hand cut tape and sprayed logo
Framework for Unauthorized Access cruciform bed
Outside frame for 150 Years on Indulgence in its crate. Green base color for faux metal interior.
Below is the mortise and tenoned 12” chair inside I Am Not and Army.
Shaping dowel spears for 150 Years frame
A few of the 15 cast rubber specimens for the Holy Prepuce Reliquaries. Link is to a Google image search that uses my faux reliquaries extensively! The Holy Prepuce was Jesus’ foreskin and a pilgrimage to see the Reliquary afforded you a 10 Indulgence. (Time off of purgatory)
Electric Blanket detail for the Dominion cross piece, created holes with heat gun and aged fabric.
Hummingbird body used to make molds for casting the 100 bodies of “I’ve Not Had Enough of You”
100 cast and primed hummingbird bodies ready for finish paint work. I wound up taking 17 or so steps to complete. I tried to keep them as identical as possible to add to nightmare effect of a swarm of beautiful drones with bad intent…
Throats painted and holes drilled for faux cameras. I hollowed two bodies out and drilled a hole in birds belly to put real cameras.
Bird pew crate, this houses 50 birds. Crate not only protects it organizes wing positions.
Basswood frame for GunPlay
Framing detail for 3 X sized GunPlay and finished trigger
Second version of “Hate” used a more organic layout for a grid resulting in too many faux matches. I took out a few hundred!
Fresh batch of faux burnt matches, each piece takes thousands!
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