A German Shorthaired Pointer transforms into a festive Christmas tree, its brown head and body forming the trunk while golden-yellow pine boughs sweep upward in wild, energetic strokes and red berries cascade down its sides. A gold star perches atop the dog's head, and cheerful red boots replace its hind legs, rendered in a whimsical mixed-media style that blends illustration with textural detail. 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.