A barn owl with a pale cream face and dark wings perches on a verdant pine branch set against a deep wine-red ground. The composition balances the bird's centered stillness against the dynamic diagonal sweep of evergreen needles, rendered in muted greens and ochres with a folk-art sensibility. 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.