Corvus & Crater - Black and white depicting the myth of Corvus and Crater. The entire background is black with grain shading and a star map showing the constellations Corvus and Crater in the southern sky. In the top left is an outline of a sun representing Apollo with a glowing black water serpent winding in and around it. In the middle sweeping down from the top right is a large crow in profile. In the middle in a double handle crater with Apolloβs laurel leaf on it. In the bottom right is a black lyre and in the bottom left is a large fig tree with one fig cut in half. Behind in the bottom half are swirling white lines representing water.
Swatch card for the gourmand bandana repeat pattern l created for author ldris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and Babe&Oak stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside thers, frame is the pattern large scalea The swatch card is on top of the pattern at a smaller scale.
Pattern is in tones of muted deep lavender, dark navy, warm blue and creamy beige taupe.
The pattern is a mosaics of tiles in alternating colours with vignettes of abstract botanics and fruit illustrations. Fruit illustrations include a pear, a strawberry, a pair of cherries and a pair of peaches. The botanic abstracts are symmetrical and inspired by tin tile ceilings and florals including daisies. The tiles create a ion border along and diamond within a secondary light creamy white and pale blue fruit and botanic floral pattern. Together they form a 90s inspired bandana pattern.
Black line art minimal design for an Eki Stamp of the fictional Kisaragi Station from the urban legend in Japan. It is done in a stylized minimal monoline art style with ominous details hidden.
Stamp is a circle. The border is divided into empty space and thick black sections. The bottom third is filled into black with "ε¦ζι§
Kisaragi Sta." On top. On the left is a branching tree outline with black leaves. Hanging from the tree are four (representing death Japanese bells and stylized fog is cutting over top. Next to the tree is a retro style pay phone with the phone line cut and disconnected. Beyond the phone are track tracks and a small train station surrounded by overgrown greenery with mountains and power lines behind it. The station is a shingled a line pavilion an entrance to the left that's overgrown with plants and abandoned. To, the right is a small bench with overgrown plants and a framed signed with a symbol that combines a a play on a version of the Mitsudomoe (3 commas) and a Shinto spirit mirror. At the apex or the pavilion is a decoration inspired by hanya masks. Fog rolls in over top of the station and large bushes and a gradient half tone is on the mountains behind
Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anneβs lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.
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I'm Γlle β’ Toronto based freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer
Passionate about detail work, lush patterns, occult history & symbolism
Open for projects in publishing, tarot end-pages, merch, commercial & private commissions
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