A black cat with piercing yellow eyes stares directly forward, its face dominating the composition against a deep charcoal background. Cream-colored leaves or foliage frame the cat's head and shoulders, creating a bold contrast that emphasizes the feline's intense gaze and graphic silhouette rendered in a woodcut or linocut style. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.