Pink hollyhocks with deep red centers bloom abundantly across a soft sage ground, their delicate petals rendered with careful detail and subtle shading. A dragonfly hovers at the top left while green grasshoppers and foliage create a naturalistic garden composition, executed in the precise hand-colored manner of traditional botanical illustration. 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.