cqgraphicdesign website

Well here it is! I crammed today to get my website done. In the midst of work for everyone else I have very little time for myself. Interesting factoid, I disliked doing my own site. Making decisions for myself tends to be the hardest. For those of you who have seen my past sites you will notice that I eliminated a bunch of things. I tried to slim down and class up. A crisp, clean new look. Drop me a line and let me know what you all think! Check it out HERE.

28 pounds!

Well today I ran out of apoxie, right now I have 28 lbs of Apoxie on the sculpture. I orderd more today to be able to finish the project. You can see I added a metal armature for the right arm. I uploaded the finished drawing again so you can get the full scope again. Obviously I decided to add one toe to each foot and hand, for a total on four.

frog sculpture progress

he is still missing HIS right ARM ( I need more apoxie)

Well hopefully you can kind of see how things are going to be put together. Try not to let the different colors distract you. Of course, once everything is painted it will come ALIVE... mwwwaahahaha, (that's my evil scientist laugh)
Ok seriously, I spent a good time today coating the bottom (not shown) of the pad today with Apoxie... I also had to construct the wooden inserts that will house the brackets for the installation. The city likes to be able to screw the base of the sculpture to concrete to prevent someone carrying the sculpture off. (It has happened).

working on the lilly pad

Working on the lilly pad today, and the bottom half of the frog. I think constructing the feet and the pad/while the frog is in place will be fun. Truly though, I can't wait until the painting aspect.
In the lillypad photo above I had to attach the two side pieces to the main pad, as I didn't have one "big chunk" of foam to deal with.

KIDS' TIME WEBSITE LAUNCH!

Launched today is the KIDS' TIME website! After lots of long hours, research, hard work and collaboration we were finally able to open it to the public! Check it out!
The greatest feature of the site is the ONLINE BIBLE STUDIES that are fully trackable and managed online. 52 Lessons in all. Mellisa helped out greatly by entering all 52 lessons into a quiz program which we purchased for this very thing. We are waiting to see how it goes over. The quizes are password protected. Each quiz needs to be taken in order of the lessons to receive the next password, and so on. Once completed the user then receives a FREE BIBLE and certificate. We are praying the Lord uses this site to further His kingdom. Without His help we could have never of completed the project. It took over 8 months of work. It will continually be a work in progress, always adding things, etc. We will also be running monthly contests for kids to enter. It's going to be great fun!

Enough is Enough!

Did you know that the estimated Michigan deer population for 2005 for the Saginaw Bay Area is 242,500! Well, yesterday I hit my 14th deer since 2001. Enough is enough! Shrug it off and move on. You can see all of my hits (except yesterdays) with the web page I dedicated to the ridiculousness of it all HERE.

Woah!

This was a shocker this weekend. I was expecting a byline in the paper not the front page and so huge! lol. Best I live up to the expectation now. LOL

Little known fact: I also redesigned the masthead for the paper just 2 weeks ago.

Making Progress...

Notice the foreman in the photo above

Well as you can see the progress continues! I'm constructing the bottom portion now. I think I am going to have GREAT fun painting this one. The "empty" spot on the right side (bottom photo) is where the ARM will go. I haven't figured exactly where that fall. At any rate! Having fun working with it.

it's not easy being green

Well I added still more apoxie today. It takes time, the apoxie works best if its warmed, and I like the green stuff, mixes well. Still haven't figure out what I will do for the feet, and possibly lilly pad.... and of course a "butt", he doesn't haveone right yet, (not shone) lol

color me green

And so it begins, the adding of the APOXIE to the frog. I started with the eyes and legs as they needed to be attached for stability. Notice that I am constructing the eyes in a "CRAZY EYED" fashion. Reminiscent of Bill the Cat. NOt quit as pronounced, but will not be proportional and "even" looking when i'm done.

THPPPFT!

IGOR!, "PULL THE SWITCH!"

Well if you haven't heard by now, this year's DOWNTOWN MIDLAND SCULPTURE SERIES is on it's way.
The theme: FROGS!
I am only doing ONE Sculpture this year.
It's name: TONGUE TIED
The thinking behind this years sculpture was to be a little more light hearted with it. I think the
public will like that more.
The process is going to be a little more challenging then the previous DRAGONS (see older posts)
I am using scrap foam from the dragons, including an old discarded HEAD that was going to be used and never was. And last summer, after the dragons appeared downtown, I had a huge piece of foam leftover. A lady from Riverside asked for me to create a squirrel for her and so I did. 2 times, the first squirrel was too big, so I created a different one, a smaller version. It worked well. So I was left with a large squirrel that sat in my kitchen for a few months. Until now.
Instead of the dragon's lair, this year in true Dr. Frogenstein fashion we will have a "frog lab"
I have to transform a squirrel into a frog. Kinda like Frankenstein, when he uses pieces and parts to create his monster. lol. (interject, I loved the IGOR movie)
At any rate, squirrel ears become frog eyes, a dragons head becomes a frog leg.
FUN!...yet challenging.
The real fun will be at the end, when I can say...
IGOR!, "PULL THE SWITCH!"

I forgot to take a photo of the squirrel before I began cutting.


My frog design

One of the legs is a revamped Dragon head, I will need to shorten the torso, make an arm (otherside), (add front belly, back) attach all the parts and go from there.

mwwwwwaaaaahahahaha (evil scientist laugh) And NO... this is not Dr. Horribles, Sing Along Blog.