Five blue peonies with ink-sketched petals and hand-drawn stems cluster together against a soft white ground, their layered blooms rendered in varying shades of navy and slate. The composition balances loose, expressive linework in the leaves and stems with fluid watercolor washes that give the flowers an organic, delicate quality. 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.