A black cockatoo perches among golden-green eucalyptus leaves against a warm rust-red background, its feathers rendered in deep purple and charcoal with intricate texture and detail. The composition captures the bird in profile with its distinctive crest raised, surrounded by naturalistic foliage in an illustrative style that combines bold color blocking with fine linear work. 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.