Laugh out Loud

 The eye of the beholder ...

I've been working on this little beauty
(a commission for a valued friend) 

for some months now, on and off

- it's a partial reinterpretation of a 1890's

painting of a Laughing Kookaburra by Queensland

artist and taxidermist, Anthony Alder

Sometimes re-making a partial image is

much harder than re-making the whole...

He's an odd little creature, my 'portrait',

but I like the way the abstracted wing,

has a relationship to the shape of the beak...

I hope he makes a worthy homage to

Anthony Alder's wonderful painting (below)

which lives in the National Library of Australia