This is a half grown young Green Sea Turtle.I am so inspired by these amazing creatures since they have so much to overcome from hatching in the middle of the night with only the light of the moon and stars reflecting off the water to guide them. They immediately become part of the food chain in the ocean and a very small percentage of them ever grow to adulthood. Somehow those females who do survive return to the very beach where they were hatched to lay their eggs! The art is sculpted from wood with the shell very realistly rounded. The paint is acrylic applied in layer after layer to give depth and luminosity to the shell. "Baba" is currently displayed at the Gallery at Bamboo on the north shore of the Big Island.