Four cream-colored starfish with elongated arms float across a deep charcoal ground, each one oriented in a different direction to create a sense of gentle movement and balance. The textured, stippled quality of the figures suggests a naturalistic marine subject rendered through a modern, almost printmaking technique. 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.