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The Wild Wood New Hampshire Collection

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

I’m very excited to announce the launch of Wild Wood New Hampshire – a collection of wood carvings that explore and celebrate the wildlife that we s...

Creative Thoughts/Wood Carving

Green Man as Memento Mori for a Dying Planet

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

As a woodcarver it seems almost inevitable that one will eventually carve a Green Man. When I was first learning how to carve I subscribed to the video carving ...

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/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

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

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...

Wood Carving

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/Wood Carving Process/Wood Carving Videos

Abegglen Detail Knife: Carving Demonstration Videos

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Lisa Laughy / 0 Comment

Bellow are two short videos demonstrating the use of the medium sized Abegglen Detail Knife while carving in butternut wood. I used this versatile carving tool ...

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, ...

Wild Wood New Hampshire Collection

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Meet Elliot, our sweet love cat …
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!

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