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Wood Carving

Tower and Stars: Carving A Family Shield

Posted on March 2, 2019 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

I recently completed a commissioned carving of a large shield with a family emblem consisting of a tower with three stars. It is one of the larger sized commiss...

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

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, ...

News/Wood Carving

Living With Craft 2017

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

I have some of my woodcarving work on display again this year at the Annual Craftmen’s Fair at the Mount Sunapee Resort, sponsored by of the League of New...

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

Flow Back: The Return of the Atlantic Salmon

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Lisa Laughy / 2 Comments

I recently completed a carving called Flow Back, inspired by the return of the wild Atlantic salmon to the Connecticut River. I read (this article) about how, a...

Wood Carving

Viking Dragon Guardian

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

The Viking Dragon Guardian wood carving is now available for sale in the Ninth Wave Designs Etsy store. Hand carved in beautiful mahogany wood, I completed this...

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

Triple Raven Tele-Style Guitar Carving Update

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

I recently completed the carving process of the Triple Raven Tele-style guitar body, shown above. I will spend a few more hours cleaning up around the component...

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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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