Golden yellow poppies with dark green stems rise from a black and white checkered planter against a warm rust-orange background. The composition combines bold graphic shapes with a playful perspective, where the checkerboard pattern tilts forward as if the vase itself is tipping toward the viewer, creating dynamic movement within a deliberately flat, illustrative style. 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.