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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