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Babe&Oak
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Toronto based Illustrator & Surface Pattern Designer. Mythology, folklore, occult history & lover of all things spooky

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All the snow has finally melted - back to previously scheduled fall weather
Close up photography of a branch with green leaves spotted with purple and brown and a branch with clusters of blue nearly black berries with brown purple oranges leaves. In the background is more autumn foliage
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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ALT Text benefits everyone

Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
Writing alt text infographic “WRITING ALT TEXT - IDENTIFY WHO - EXPRESSION - DESCRIPTION - COLOUR INTERESTING FEATURES “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head”
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Pattern block close up
Close up of the botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. 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.
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Fruit and botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey - 2nd part of the pattern collection for the rollout of their novel “Eat You Up”

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Swatch card for the botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. 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. Close up of the botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. 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. Botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. 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.
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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What movie villain is a horrible "person", but an absolute joy to watch on screen?
Billy Loomis
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Close ups
Close up for the repeat pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Pattern is a dark warm navy blue with botanics on top organized in spot groups that interlace diagonally with each other. Botanics are of long stem stylized tulips, large symmetrical wild daisies and various green branches and leaves. Interlaced with the botanics are various fruits including cherries, a pear split in half, citrus wedges whole and cut strawberries. The fruit and botanics are in flat colour shades light muted robins egg and warm very light pale purple. Speckled throughout are some large dots in the same pale purple. Close up for the repeat pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Pattern is a dark warm navy blue with botanics on top organized in spot groups that interlace diagonally with each other. Botanics are of long stem stylized tulips, large symmetrical wild daisies and various green branches and leaves. Interlaced with the botanics are various fruits including cherries, a pear split in half, citrus wedges whole and cut strawberries. The fruit and botanics are in flat colour shades light muted robins egg and warm very light pale purple. Speckled throughout are some large dots in the same pale purple.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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1st of three in the pattern collection I created for Author Idris Grey
- themed around gourmand botanics for the rollout of her novel “Eat You Up”

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Swatch card for the repeat pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Pattern is a dark warm navy blue with botanics on top organized in spot groups that interlace diagonally with each other. Botanics are of long stem stylized tulips, large symmetrical wild daisies and various green branches and leaves. Interlaced with the botanics are various fruits including cherries, a pear split in half, citrus wedges whole and cut strawberries. The fruit and botanics are in flat colour shades light muted robins egg and warm very light pale purple. Speckled throughout are some large dots in the same pale purple. Swatch card contains a large scale of the pattern framed with the title and the babe and oak logo on top of a square of the pattern in a smaller scale.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Jupiter 💕
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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So many songbirds keeping me company this morning 🍂
Nature photography - The branch of a red leaf tree centred in focus in front of more of the same tree out of focus in the back. The tree leaves are warm red with spots of green coming and are covered with snow. Behind a bright clear light pale blue sky is peaking through at the very top of the picture
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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All the beautiful fall leaves got covered up ❄️
Photo of grey indigo night November sky with blurry branching trees in the background. In front is a large hedge bush covered in snow and a green leaf tree bending over from the weight of the snow and water drops on its leaves
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Commissions done - time to go to the movies and fill my brain w/ gothic goodness ✨
Poster for Guillermo Del Toros Frankenstein
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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🖤
Something in The Deep - Black and white ink illustration of a gigantic eldritch inspired underwater creature near a pier. There is a small dock to the left with a building on a pier above the water. In the middle below is a small fishing boat with dark ripples of water to the left of it. Behind is fog rolling in partially covering four giant tentacles coming out of the water
November 1, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Thanks for hosting ✨
Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes. Black and white illustration representing Persephone during the autumn equinox. A frame surrounds the whole thing split in half in black and white. The middle horizontal section is torn in half like a piece of paper representing the division between the above and the underworld. In the bottom right corner are wispy swirling smoke lines going towards the centre with 3 bats flying from right to left. In the bottom left is the symbol for Persephone. In the middle are two pomegranates one whole and one cut in half. In the top half on a black background is a bee in reference to Persephone’s name as “honeyed one” on a circular medallion with narcissus flowers dropping petals around it. In the top left is the Greek word for Persephone 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 Anne’s 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. Black and white ink illustration of a church surrounded by ominous lightning and dark clouds. A small steeple church with steps leading up to a white door is in front of a large black cloud with glowing lightning cutting through. On either side are fluffy bushes with small white flowers.
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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This Saturday!

I’ll be exhibiting a piece as part of the Gods & Monsters show at ALTR Gallery in Minneapolis

If you’re near the area - come check it out or pick up some of my new prints ✨🎨

www.mplsart.com/events/gods-...
Show poster by OTHERWORLDLY ARTS COLLECTIVE - Gods & Monsters 2025 ALTR gallery OPENING NIGHT 18
October 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

✉️ babeandoak@gmail.com
🎨 babeandoak.carrd.co
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 Anne’s 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. Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black. Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes. Swatch pattern card on top of matching pattern background. Swatch card is a large white rectangle with a square swatch of the NESS magazine brand pattern I designed in the 2025 summer issue colour-way. Swatch card has font at the bottom corner that read “BABE&OAK endpage repeat pattern summer 2025 client: NESS magazine” and the stamp for Babe&Oak in the bottom right corner.
October 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Hi I’m Élle - Freelance illustrator and surface pattern designer based near Toronto.

My work focuses on occult practices in history, mythology and folklore. Love detail work and research.

• COMMISSIONS OPEN •

💌 babeandoak@gmail.con

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#art #illustrator #spooky 🎨
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 Anne’s 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. Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black. Swatch card of my Forest Floor Repeat Pattern. Repeat pattern of the greenery crushed into a forest floor. tan leaf branches and grey slate branches with bright red and dark green large berries also small branches of tan leaves with red berries and slate grey branches with tan leaves on a dark navy blue background Something in The Deep - Black and white ink illustration of a gigantic eldritch inspired underwater creature near a pier. There is a small dock to the left with a building on a pier above the water. In the middle below is a small fishing boat with dark ripples of water to the left of it. Behind is fog rolling in partially covering four giant tentacles coming out of the water
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Happy Spooky Season 🦇 🖤✨

I’m Élle - illustrator and surface pattern designer based out of Toronto. Work focuses on occult history, mythology and horror folklore.

• COMMISSIONS OPEN •
Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes. Something in The Deep - Black and white ink illustration of a gigantic eldritch inspired underwater creature near a pier. There is a small dock to the left with a building on a pier above the water. In the middle below is a small fishing boat with dark ripples of water to the left of it. Behind is fog rolling in partially covering four giant tentacles coming out of the water Night Magic - Black and white ink illustration of a magic filled Victorian house with an ominous surrounding. of a shrub framing the left side and bottom of the page. In the middle is a Victorian revival house with a spire to the right and a porch. Over the porch is a bison skull and the windows are celestial stain glass. The roof is black with cosmic looking weather vanes. 5 Crows are flying overheard from the back to the front of the house and the sky is The sky is textured with swirling pattern of lines and with black dot stars Witch House - Black and white ink illustration on textured paper of a witch’s house surrounded by swirling magical orbits. A Victorian revival house with a large central spire and wrap around porch is in front of a black ink cloud. The base of the house has a small fence near it and small shrubs. The porch wraps around the entire house and the railing has delicate filigree all throughout. Behind is a black door with small stained glass windows. The second story is a large overhang roof with part of the large central spire and a square back for the rear of the house. The third story tower as a wrap around balcony at the top with a railing with filigree details and rounded archways. Around it are celestial orbits.
October 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Sphinx Moths & Hemlock sketches🦋

Part of the washi tape & brand pattern I designed for the small press publisher Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social
Crop close up of digital sketches in grey pencil. Part of the design of the brand pattern Washi tape I designed for Neon Hemlock. In the top left is my Babe&Oak arch logo stamp. In the bottom right are various leaves and branch outlines of hemlock plants and flowers. In the left and centre are two kinds of moths. The bottom is a closed winged white spotted moth and above it is a sphinx moth in open wing position. Done on procreate
October 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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September 30 October 1
Willow eating the softer side of Sears Dark Willow shooting lighting
October 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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If you see this, show off them mouths 🫦 🎨
Close up crop of a woman's mouth with bleeding fat lip and a strand of hair to the left. Head is tilted. Painted digitally in gouache on Procreate Pocket for IPhone Close up crop of Roy Batty from the film Blade Runner during the Tears in The Rain scene. Mouth is purple and bruised and slightly open framed to the right with a light blue background. Painted digitally in gouache on Procreate Pocket for IPhone Close up crop of a woman's mouth pursed while crying with mascara tear tracks down her face and a black bob. Done digitally in gouache on Procreate Pocket for IPhone Close up crop of Ellen Hutter from 2024 Nosferatu film study. Crop of slightly parted lips and bottom of the nose shown with large tear drop silver earrings. Painted digitally in gouache on Procreate Pocket for IPhone
September 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Also my mind immediately went to this lol
Cordelia and Buffy talk about James Spader in Welcome to The Hellmouth
September 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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w/o downloading anything new - where are you mentally?
Tony Soprano with a baseball bat saying “IF YOU NEED ANYTHING - YOU EMAIL ME, BUT THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU DO...”
September 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Thanks for hosting and congrats! 🖤✨

I’m Élle - illustrator and surface pattern designer based out of Toronto. Work focuses around occult history, mythology and folklore.

• COMMISSIONS OPEN •

#artshare #darkart
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 Anne’s 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. 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 Apollo’s 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. Night Magic - Black and white ink illustration of a magic filled Victorian house with an ominous surrounding. of a shrub framing the left side and bottom of the page. In the middle is a Victorian revival house with a spire to the right and a porch. Over the porch is a bison skull and the windows are celestial stain glass. The roof is black with cosmic looking weather vanes. 5 Crows are flying overheard from the back to the front of the house and the sky is The sky is textured with swirling pattern of lines and with black dot stars Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes.
September 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Rough sketches of the botanic & bones washi tape I designed for
Neon Hemlock's release of the novella - Death Valley Blooms by
S.M. Mack
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Sketches for the washi tape designed for the release of the novella Death Valley Blooms by S.M. Mack for Neon Hemlock. Rough sketches are in two horizontal strips. The pattern is of winding twisted textured roots with blooming cactus flowers over top in different states of bloom. In between the roots and flowers are bones, vertebrae and a dessert cotton tail rabbit skull
September 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Show off your snake #art 🎨
Birth of Cosmos - Black and white illustration depicting the birth of the primordial god Phanes. There is a large arch with a celestial star sprinkled cloud of the cosmos moving from top left to bottom right. Inside the line of the arch are radial lines and the symbols for the zodiac. In the middle is a large amphora with a black snake winding around it and an egg above it it with rays coming off it. Surrounding the Greek amphora are large 8 point stars and vining cosmos flowers.
September 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM