Brian Donnelly and Henrietta Harris

Brian Donnelly (KAWS) is a New York-based artist and designer who creates a limited edition toys and clothing . He has created a series of portraits that portray fading / dissolving faces . He named his series of work "Liquified Rainbow Portraits" because each image shows a person's face dissolving into a waterfall  of rainbow colours . The series is highly whimsical with the use of appealingly bright colours . The painting is designed to look as through each face simply vanishing - like something from a cartoon movie . He was inspired to create these fading faces to reflect his 'interest in human identity and vulnerability." The images are crafted to look just like real people , with a slight twist of literal identity confusion . The thought-provoking series is relative to many human emotions and will resonate with a variety of individuals .

    

Here are some examples of his work and that is our first idea with the dissolving faces . We thought that it might be interesting to use as a front cover of our CD pack because we wanted to do something abstract , as abstract art is open interpretation , and that is one of the beautiful things about it . Abstract art doesn't jump out and declare "This is what it is all about" . Instead , abstract art requires you to have an open , inquiring mind . Abstract art gives you the freedom to explore the artwork and assign your own meaning to the piece . This intensely personal process enriches a viewer's experience of an artwork . Understanding abstract art doesn't come naturally for everyone . What people do not realise is that the best abstract artists have excellent drawing skills , a finely honed sense of composition and a deep understanding of the working of colour . Most of the abstract artists have the ability to draw a perfectly rendered rose or a realistic portrait , but they choose not to . Instead, they choose to express their creativity by creating a visual experience that is more free and unencumbered by the weight of objects . That is a reason why we want to use abstract covers .  

The second artist that I found is Henrietta Harris . The idea behind her work is quite similar to the first artist . Her paintings and drawings are surreal portraits with a unique style , where faces are often covered in some way . It seems that the portraits were manipulated with weird interventions that look like a "glitch" where faces dissolving , but these effects only give to each work a more interesting point of view .

      

  After some research, we will think how we can develop these ideas of dissolving faces further . Maybe we will decide that we want to change faces and take objects instead of the faces .