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	<title>Christy Stallop</title>
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		<title>Wheels Book Dummy Complete!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It feels great to finish a book dummy.   Suddenly you find that you can think about other things, play with your kids&#8230; shower!  All this extra time!!!  I sent my agent a digital dummy, (Indesign makes it so easy) but I need a hands on dummy for myself.  I need to hold it in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christystallop.com/blog/2009/08/06/wheels-book-dummy-complete/</link>
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		<title>quick sketch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t get to sketch till this morning.  Along with the other wheels I&#8217;ve done, I needed to sketch out one of the double page spread ideas.  Hopefully this will be enough for Rosemary to move forward.  I love this simple book more and more.

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		<link>http://christystallop.com/blog/2009/07/28/quick-sketch/</link>
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		<title>Cartwheel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This will be the only person/child in this series.  Because it&#8217;s about wheels and locomotion, I decided to have the child face away from the viewer.  This will keep the focus on the movement and not the individual.  
I&#8217;ve sketched out the little girl after setting up the background.

 
I&#8217;ve applied a crackle glaze that I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christystallop.com/blog/2009/07/22/cartwheel/</link>
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		<title>Star Wheel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the most fun wheel yet. I&#8217;ve looked up at the stars so many times in my life and I can even point out a few Constellations but to me the sky was too full of stars to make any real sense of it. I started drawing this star chart, plotting out the dots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christystallop.com/blog/2009/07/13/star-wheel/</link>
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		<title>Chris Barton&#8217;s &#8220;The Day-Glo Brothers&#8221;</title>
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I had the pleasure of attending Chris Barton&#8217;s book signing at Book People this past Saturday.
Chris was promoting his first published picture book &#8220;The Day-Glo Brothers&#8221; .  

It was so nice to see all the Local SCBWI peeps showing their support for this very talented author. Not only was there a lot&#8217;s of writing and illustrator folks, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christystallop.com/blog/2009/07/12/chris-bartons-the-day-glo-brothers/</link>
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		<title>Wheels, Wheels and more Wheels!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never would have thought of doing a book on wheels. It something insignificant to me, yet what would we do without them?   My friend Dianna thought up the concept. She sees things I don&#8217;t see, She thinks about things I don&#8217;t have time to think about. She finds the importance of small things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christystallop.com/blog/2009/07/09/wheels-wheels-and-more-wheels/</link>
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		<title>Wheels Continued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to play with these. They were hypnotic with their movement. Such a simple idea. This illustration is the third in a series of wheels.  
 

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		<link>http://christystallop.com/blog/2009/07/07/wheels-continued/</link>
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		<title>Wheel Redo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not in a very cheerful mood&#8230;.and it&#8217;s showing in my work. I redid the wheel illustration and I&#8217;m still not sure it conveys the happy, cheerfulness of going to an amusement park and riding the ferris wheel. I personally never liked the ferris wheel. To me it was boring and slow but to a good friend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christystallop.com/blog/2009/06/26/wheel-redo/</link>
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		<title>Another Wheel</title>
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Finally finished this wheel after many repaints.   Still not completely satisfied with it.  I&#8217;m going to put it away for a spell.  Hopefully time will give me fresh eyes.
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		<link>http://christystallop.com/blog/2009/06/22/another-wheel/</link>
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		<title>BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a new book.   It&#8217;s a simple book, which makes it complicated for me.  The pains of editing effect illustrators as much as writers.  The theme is pretty basic ..yet extraordinary, so how do I portray these things in a way that also celebrates them?  To simple, and they seem unimportant&#8230;to complex and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christystallop.com/blog/2009/05/18/back-to-the-drawing-board/</link>
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