Underwood's gently humorous text follows the same simple pattern throughout, accompanied by Liwska's penciled illustrations of some fuzzy animal characters (in an appropriately hushed palette).
Residents have been surprised recently to see small color illustrations of some of their neighbors displayed on trees along streets in the area.
Too many of the artworks in this show stick to familiar strategies or are little more than elaborate, often beautifully executed illustrations of some scientific fact or fantasy.
We know them the way we know real people — not as illustrations of some principle, or as exemplary remote figures who have "desires" and "arcs" of success and failure, but as compulsion machines capable of charm.
We know them the way we know real people not as illustrations of some principle, or as exemplary remote figures who have "desires" and "arcs" of success and failure, but as compulsion machines capable of charm.
Other sections of the show include illustrations of some of the Caribbean's 13,000 flowering plants, like the Geiger tree (Cordia sebestena) depicted in a watercolor that was painted directly into Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's extraordinary book, "Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia".
