Blog Design Update and Exciting News!

For those of you who notice these things you will see i have updated my blog design.
I didn't mind the last one but a few things were bugging me about it and i wanted to have a fresher look. There are a few things i would like to change further on this design but the template isnt letting me do it and i really should be moving onto other things so we just have to live with what we have for now. So there it is i hope you like it. If anyone has any comments about the width of my blog design i would be interested to know, i forced the page to be the 820pixels wide, i know some people with smaller monitors / resolutions may have problems if so let me know. I still havent updated my website with the relevant links etc yet but at least i can cross the blog update off the list of things to be done :)

Also i have some exciting news. My coloured pencil work was published this month in Artist's Palette Magazine no. 58 on page 18. Woot! This is pretty exciting for me as its the first time my work as actually been printed (apart from when i have done it myself). There are 4 photos of my artwork plus a little paragraph, here is a copy of the page i think its ok for me to post here seeing as its my work i am posting? And, there might be more of my work featured in future issues, i submitted some information they requested and a demo so lets see if that makes it in.
Anywho, thats my news how exciting.