Five white herons with long curved necks and red-crowned heads gather against a deep black ground, their elegant forms rendered in soft gray and cream tones with delicate line work. The composition balances the birds' upright postures and turned heads in a moment of quiet congregation, evoking the restrained elegance of traditional East Asian art. 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.