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Terry D. Jelcick

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Terry D. Jelcick	ILLUSTRATIONS and CARTOONS by Terry D. Jelcick more ILLUSTRATIONS	All the "art" (metal, paintings and drawings) was created by one person, Terry Dennis Jelcick. What you see herein spans more than thirty years of trial and error, feast and famine, success and failure. "Art4Money". Terry Jelcick has been making steel things, illustrations and designs for over 35 years. Art4Money, that's the trade-off. Like shells & beads, art4money, money4art, it's how the mortgage gets paid and the kid put through college. Hand to mouth, feast or famine; it's a money game. No lopping off of ears for the sake of art here though. Art's supposed to be fun. Making money doing what you like to do is what everyone strives for. I'm just not so good at making a profit. You see, it not only takes talent and a lot of time to make art, it also takes money to make money when you're making art. Scroll down the page to see some of it. The "art". What you don't see, is what only I see; As the steel heats under the flame of the torch, colors surpassing any rainbow come and go as the steel undergoes its transformation. Blues and purples and blacks (OK, so black aint a rainbow color. Give me a break here) like the colors found in the feathers of a mallard duck, or the thin sheen of oil on water. The ships creek and moan and groan with the expansion and contraction of the metal under the intense heat of the torch. At times it is possible to retain some of the colors I experience by giving things a quick coat of acrilyc spray. Without it, elements will cause the process of decomposition to begin. Oxygen may be the stuff life is made of but, it's hell on steel. Most pieces will outlast us all, and our children and great grandchildren. Some though, the works I leave outside, untreated in the open air, wind and rain, will give way to the elements and soon begin to decay with rust; to return to the elements from which they were formed, as will we all I suppose, some day. In the mean time, Welcome. Please browse and enjoy.

Just4Steel?
& a painting or two.
Over the years I've attempted to bring a concept or two to a tangible, marketable form, not really art, but then... COLOR T'S & PIN THE TAIL ON THE WHALEActivities (Kits4Kids) for the kid in all of us & LOCAL JUICE T-Shirts with names of Surf spots around the world Unfortunately the "JUICE" site (above) is temporarily out of service, as you may have noticed.

I've created thousands of drawings of all kinds. Here are just a few.

Tall Ships of the past
Steel ships, a crab, fishing boats, and sculpture of all kinds.

T-SHIRTS
More than 30 years of creating designs for T-Shirts.

Trawlers
Monterey-style Fishing Boats

The Red Rock Crab
An indigenous species to the Monterey Bay.

Sculpture
Various works spanning more than 30 years.

TERRY D. JELCICK

JUST STEEL
and a little brass
41" x 46" SQUARERIGGER

Click HERE to view a few of the other steel ships and things I've made over the years.

"Art4Money" serves as both a site nickname AND a what I do for a living. That's why anything you see here can have a price tag. Truth of the matter is that the state of California has revoked my sellers permit more than once for lack of sales. Most of what you see just hangs in my shop gathering dust, and become homes for web spinners.

A more recent stormy view of the Capitola Wharf in Capitola, California, where the photo of me and the crab was taken many years ago.

Your E-Mails are always welcome sunnysoquel@yahoo.com

A shot I took from within the ranks of USCG PSU-303 during the Welcome Home Parade in Washington DC, 1991.

After being released from active duty in the Navy in 1970, I took a sculpture class at Cabrillo College, a local junior college in Aptos, CA, from a great art teacher named Holt Murray. It was at this same time that I purchased my first welding outfit, an industrial Victor torch for $75, and my love for steel began.

Following my obligation to the Navy, after enjoying civilian life for quite a number of years I joined the Army National Guard. A year hadn't passed before I transfered to the U.S. Coast Guard Reserves and soon thereafter found myself in Floridia at a Port Security Unit training facility during Operation Desert Shield and then a few months later in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm. Not exactly what I had envisioned by joining the Coast Guard.

In 2006, after serving in three brances of the service, spanning more than forty years, I was, by policy, manditorily discharged from the United States Coast Guard promptly upon reaching age sixty. Ironicaly, for my last tour of duty in the USCG I was put to work for the United States Navy once again, assigned to Naval Coastal Warfare Group One, just miles from where my military career began down near San Diego, CA back in the summer of '66.

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