Wading birds with distinctive long beaks and elegant postures stand among cattails and flowering marsh plants on a charcoal ground, their soft gray and cream plumage contrasted with peachy-orange bills and pale eye markings. The composition repeats the birds and botanicals in a rhythmic all-over pattern, rendered in a naturalistic illustration style that captures both the quirky personality of these magnificent creatures and the lush wetland habitat they inhabit. 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.