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An appropriate image for a first posting on my new blog here. The Earth Turtle was one of my first and most magical creations.<\/p>\n

Created in the summer of 2001 I was sitting at my kitchen table in a small rustic cabin along Dead Indian Memorial Road. I remember thinking to myself, “Now I am going to create something absolutely great. I am going to open up a door into another world and pull out an amazing image which people will absolutely love.” I am setting an intention of love. I began to draw and the Earth Turtle was born. (This is not my typical starting point – But however interesting for this project)<\/p>\n

The original drawing was done on an 8.5 x 5.5 piece of copy paper and took me about 45 minutes. I then used prisma color pencils and micron pens to color and ink the final drawing. When I get some time in the future I will include the picture right here as well as sell the signed original.<\/p>\n

(((Hey, Shields – Put Original Earth Turtle Here – People Are Waiting)))<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the creation of the Earth Turtle I was always in pursuit of being able to surpass the popularity of its creation. No matter what format this turtle was in, on a journal, greeting card, shirt or clock. The image ALWAYS sold, and it almost ALWAYS sold first.<\/p>\n

Once I saw the popularity of the image in original format, I decided to refine it down to the essence. I wanted to see if it could work better. I took the image and transposed it into adobe illustrator. It continued to gather attention and was once again a success.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if people just love turtles or if there really was some magic that occurred at it’s birth, and for this purpose the image holds my curiosity.<\/p>\n

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An appropriate image for a first posting on my new blog here. The Earth Turtle was one of my first and most magical creations. Created in the summer of 2001 I was sitting at my kitchen table in a small rustic cabin along Dead Indian Memorial Road. I remember thinking to myself, “Now I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shieldsbialasik.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}