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Sciath Fia Bairr: Stag Shield

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

In 2017 I spent several months working on a carving of a stag wreathed in runes. It was inspired in part by a painting I did several years ago called Crainn na ...

Wood Carving/Wood Carving Process/Wood Carving Videos

Acanthish Column

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Lisa Laughy / 1 Comment

One of my favorite projects that I had the opportunity to work on in 2017 was a carved walnut column for a friend’s house in Canterbury, NH. He provided m...

Wood Carving/Wood Carving Process

Icon of the Great Bear

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

This original wood carving is inspired by the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. I designed this piece to reflect a feeling of reverence for the sacredne...

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Form Plaque Project Update

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

The beginning of June each year brings about the deadline for completing my ongoing commission carving form plaques, and this year I completed plaque number 22 ...

Wood Carving/Wood Carving Process

Elemental Celtic Cross

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Lisa Laughy / 3 Comments

Earlier this year I completed a carving in mahogany wood of an equal-armed Celtic cross – photos of the carving process are shown in the gallery below. Th...

Wood Carving

Pearl of Great Price

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Lisa Laughy / 7 Comments

Carved from butternut wood, the design for this piece is from a small drawing I did a number of years ago of my dog, named Pearl.  The title of this blog post, ...

Wood Carving

Leaping Fox Carving Study: Demonstration Videos

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Lisa Laughy / 1 Comment

I created three videos to demonstrate the carving and painting process involved in the making of the Leaping Fox carving study. These brief videos show the tool...

Wood Carving

Leaping Fox Carving Study

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

Earlier this summer I completed a small carving as a study for a larger project I hope to work on sometime over the winter – a red fox captured mid-leap, ...

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Form Plaque Project Update

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

It feels so good to have this done and mounted in its frame. It is ready to be delivered tomorrow and it will join its friends by the end of the week when it ge...

Wood Carving

International Day of Celtic Art

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

Celebrating the first International Day of Celtic Art with this #regram of one of my more traditional Celtic Art wood carvings, the Tree of Life Celtic Cross. ...

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Elliot has his tuxedo on!
Carving is done on this Love Cat - shoutout to @terryrunyan for the inspiration for the moveable tail!
Carving the face, love his little gob!
Started a new fun carving today - meet Elliot, our handsome tuxedo cat!
Finished up the volvelle I posted about earlier - very pleased to have another cipher wheel to put to use creating texts in the Alchemy Notebook.
Lunar Volvelle: I created this moving paper wheel to track the cycle of the moon - as a page in my Alchemy Notebook. I am fascinated by volvelles - medieval calculators made of moveable paper elements. This one is painted with watercolor and gouache - made as a page in my Moleskine sketchbook with the pages tinted to make it look aged.
A treasure trove of symbols!
Here’s the firsts phase of building the volvelle inside the front cover of the Alchemy Notebook. The wheel is in place and turns well - now I will work on the cipher characters that go on the following page. This cipher wheel will be very useful for creating future pages in the notebook. More to come!
Piecing some new things together for the opening pages of the Alchemy Notebook - a new cipher wheel / volvelle. Symbols, ciphers, and magic!

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