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    It's been a year without a journal update, perhaps it's time.  I've got a new job now, which has me designing, creating, and illustrating; which is great, but it could mean less energy gets funneled in here.  Though looking at the six month gap in submissions, I don't think it could get much worse.
     On the flip side, I bought myself a new tablet.  The old one was the cheapest one available, I had it for years, and I wore that thing down to the point where the pen fell apart.  It had already paid for itself several times over, so it's earned its retirement.  I upgraded to a 6x8 wireless model with battery-free (and hopefully more durable) pen.  It came with a version of Painter which I have yet to install.  Though it doesn't look likely in terms of time, I hope to see what new things I can coax out of it.
     Thanks to everyone for hanging around through half a year of near silence.  I've still been reading your comments and notes and watching your favourites.  I hope everyone's doing well, take care,
~cambium
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*

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I'm a *, for a little while.  My thanks to MrMushroomMan for the subscription; I entered his contest for traditional floral art and nabbed third prize.
I hope to capitalize on it, though it coincides with a time when I'm ridiculously busy with full-time work and several freelance projects.  Still, I do love me those bar graphs in the subscriber stats.  Hurrah!

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Coming soon...

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     You know, I should really use this for something other than excuses as to why I'm not posting.  
     So I've signed up for a course at the local art school, a once-a-week thing that fits in with my full-time job.  I've never done the 'art student' thing, I was always more of a science student that snuck into the art studios.  Anyway the class will be on botanical illustration, and I'll be putting up the results here, because really, who else would I inflict that on?  So, new images here starting in the last two weeks of June, if not earlier.
     As for more HP stuff, I've got nothing planned right now, but just wait until July 21st.

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    I tried, really I did: this holiday was supposed to get me back creating my own images.  I figured I'd have days of idleness in which to draw, I even got a decent start on an HP piece that'll be up… eventually; but to the surprise of no one, including me, stuff came up.  
    The entire lead-up to Christmas was a mad scramble to get gifts together and delivered.  Since then I've had the good fortune to meet up again with family and several friends back from abroad.  Therefore the unfinished projects remained unfinished, the clutter failed to be organized, and I've just thrown a bunch more holiday photos into the mix.  I head back to work tomorrow, and I've got another project to deliver by February, so my free time may be short yet again.  You get some stuff now, a bit more shortly, and then who knows; but it sure beats unemployment.
   I hope you all had happy holidays and that the New Year is treating you well so far.  Thanks for all the comments, favourites, and watches, if I haven't already said so.  I'll be in touch, my best to you and yours.

~cambium

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In Absentia

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  Wow, a whole month of nothing; go me.  I've been swamped lately; I started full-time work as a photographer (who knew?) and at the same time I got commissions to create five different websites.  This follows a few months of near-unemployment, so I'm grateful, just busy.  It's particularly nice to be paid to create designs and images, all artists should be so lucky.  So if you've been watching for a while, thanks for hanging in there.  If you're new to me; "Hi", if I haven't already said so.  Somewhere at the end of this there are my own images waiting to be drawn.  One of these days…

P.S. By any chance, would any of you lovely and talented people be a whiz at cross-browser Javascript programming?  Nothing too hard, just fixing a mouseover image transition that works in Explorer and nowhere else.  Let me know.

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