A shaggy Highland cow peers around the edge of the composition with a playful, almost mischievous expression, its long horns and tousled coat rendered in warm browns and creams against a clean white ground. The minimalist framing and gentle watercolor-like rendering capture a moment of curiosity and humor, as though the animal has just caught sight of something amusing just beyond the viewer's gaze. 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.