Before I painted this handsome fellow - I was taking a zoom call while sitting on my back deck.
The conversation turned to my art, and if art was my purpose in this life. At that very moment - a Black Cockatoo screeched over the top of me and perched itself in a low hanging branch of a tree only a few metres from where I sat.
This is the first and only Black Cockatoo I have ever seen up close in the wild since moving to the South Coast - interesting because my town "Nowra" is the Aboriginal word for Black Cockatoo.
Call it a sign? I don't know but I sure felt compelled to paint one after that magical experience