A lone pirate sits hunched on a desolate shoreline, rendered in warm ochres and burnt siennas against a golden sky. The figure's isolation and posture convey abandonment and despair, created with painterly brushwork that blends earth tones into a horizon where land and sky merge seamlessly. 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.