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Tutorials/Wood Carving

Intertwined Hearts Wood Carving Pattern and Template Available

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

As an extension of the Tutorials section on the website, I have made one of my favorite carving templates available in a 30 page PDF called “Intertwined H...

Celtic Artwork/Inspiration

The Promise of Spring

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

Imbolc has always held a special significance for me among the cross-quarter holidays. It may have less of an established awareness among those in the US, and i...

Alchemy Notebook/Celtic Artwork/Creative Thoughts/Other Artwork

Strange Jewels Found, Finally

Posted on November 29, 2019 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

It was over 20 years ago that I began a series of paintings on paper, inspired by Irish myth and the early medieval manuscripts of Ireland, the first of which w...

Wood Carving/Wood Carving Process

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

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

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. ...

Wood Carving

Tree-of-Life Cross

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

I recently created a small carving of a Celtic Cross at the request of a friend. I had the end section left over from the board I used to create the Dragestil m...

Wood Carving

Triple Raven Tele-Style Guitar Update

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

I am very pleased to share this picture of the front and back of the fully assembled Triple Raven Tele-style guitar. It is so exciting for me to see the finishe...

Wood Carving

Old Woman of the Night

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Lisa Laughy / 1 Comment

This carving started because I wanted to express something about owls, snowy owls specifically. I started with a small image of an owl I had created many years ...

Wood Carving

Walnut Intertwined Hearts

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

I now have one of my carvings available for sale online through the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen web store, shown above. The Intertwined Hearts carving can...

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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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