THE DRAWING     The chest is in the kitchen and Linda is almost finished creating the illustration. It is two chests with a common wall and built of birch plywood. The drawers are hung with ball bearing glides and the bun feet are turned. The chest is 54" long, 48.5" high. 22" deep.     The first characters to appear on the primed white chest were the Frogs smiling contentedly from their Bromiliad. Then the Toucans appeared on the branch above them. This set the foreground.     A tree runs vertically on the right side. In a crotch sits the coolest Ocelot. Above him are Macaws, below a Snake. Both wind around the right side.     On the riser is a magnificent flying Macaw.     On the left is a Monkey foraging while a Hoatzin sits wisely on a branch above. The branch wraps around the left side where more Hoatzin sit.     Most of the foreground flora is as easily identifiable as the fauna: Orchids, Bromilliads, Palms, a Philodendron, a Moonflower Tree, and several Butterflies. THE PAINTING     The drawing progressed from the closest plane to the farthest. When all the major characters were drawn, Linda then worked from the backround to the foreground painting the sky and distant trees first.     This delineated the complexity of the design showing how it wraps over the top, around the corner and up the riser.     The characters that compose the foreground now have greater definition and the interaction of plants and animals is more apparent.   ADDRESS INQUIRES TO LINDA