A striped tiger with a bold, geometric body rendered in black and cream stripes dominates the composition, its face painted with fierce red and gold details that gaze upward toward a small black magpie perched on a gnarled branch. Ornamental vines and foliate elements frame the scene in muted earth tones, creating a balanced tableau that recalls traditional East Asian brush painting with its studied attention to pattern, symbolism, and decorative restraint. 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.