DennisJones
eclectic artwork & other random things
Nailed It!
One summer during my college years, I helped my Uncle Roy frame walls onto the back porch of his lake house. My cousin Lynn and I got one massive wall done, but the studs were not on 18 inch centers (or something like that) so we had to tear it apart and try it again the next day. That night, we slept outside on the wooden deck, surrounded by the construction mess. It was very windy, really cold and my blanket kept blowing off of me. Around midnight, I grabbed a hammer and pounded ten penny nails into each corner of that very nice quilt, effectively solving the flapping blanket problem. I believe the only thing I successfully nailed down that entire weekend was my Aunt JoAnn’s very nice quilt.
Hockey DefenseMan… er… Moose
Last season, I was a teammate of a Detroit Redwing loving, hockey playing, defense moose. …no, seriously, I really was …honest.
Even More Kids For The Blog
The kids I draw have either been eating a lot of chocolate or hanging out at the coffee shop… one way or the other, heavily caffeinated.
More Kids For The Blog
As an illustrator, my job is to create illustrations that fit in and around type. Over the years, I’ve been given some pretty odd shapes to fill with a picture. I did these four kids a while back and apparently they are each supposed to fit inside a square.
This Blog Is Sadly Kidless
I just noticed that I have no pictures of kids on my blog. I’m going to quickly throw this image up and now I’m going to dig through my picture morgue for a bunch more…
Critical Mass
Time to release the flying monkeys…
Edward Firefox
As Edward Firefox contemplated his next shot he came to a startling realization… time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like an apple.
The Man From Uncle
When I was a kid, my little brother Donald and I saved the world many a time pretending to be Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin from the old tv show THE MAN FROM UNCLE… so it was a trip down memory lane recently when I illustrated a Phil Callaway article and got to do this take on that old MAN FROM UNCLE logo.
Tiger Bait
I’m pretty sure this is what an L.S.U. fan is thinking when they yell TIGER BAIT!
The Death Valley Dealer
Frank Frazetta created a legendary image several years ago called The Death Dealer. As I was designing new board game images, I drew this picture in homage to that iconic piece of artwork… and in homage to my L.S.U. loving daughter-in-law, I named this fellow The Death VALLEY Dealer. He sits atop his intimidating warrior battle hog, ready for action. I fear this image will not sit well with my Arkansas Razorback loving kinfolk…
A.J.’s Fish
My buddy A.J. showed me a picture of a fish that he caught and it looked an awful lot like this one…
Jousting Peeps
Some felt that Sir Rocky Raccoon of Black Mountain Hill took unfair advantage of the rather loose jousting rules at the tournament…
Turtle Tank
General Moture’s surprise attack from the woods was truly a stroke of genius. Unfortunately, riding a turtle for the surprise attack was not a great idea.
Oxymoron
Here we have a floppy eared… uhm… dog?… kind of a guy riding some sort of… uhm… ox looking creature. That dog is not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer (if you know what I mean) …he truly is an oxymoron.
Building A Better Hedge Knight: Part 4
My stop-motion hedge knight, Sir Duncan The Tall, is now pretty much complete. His head and mouth can move as well as his legs, arms and fingers.
He still needs a few props, so I build him a sword out of Sculpey and a shield out of balsa wood.
I also make him a massive pair of shoulder pads just in case the Kansas City Chiefs decide to take him with their first pick in this years NFL Draft.
Ok, this guy is pretty much ready to make his big screen, stop-motion film debut.
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