CD project

The theme of my mixtape is rainy day songs, and is called "Stupid Sad Girl Songs". The songs I chose to put on the mix aren't necessarily songs about rain, but slower-paced, chilled-out songs that give off that melancholy rainy day vibe. Here's the track list:

In The Flowers - Animal Collective

Violent Dreams - Crystal Castles

Glass Of The Microscope - Yeasayer

Coming Down - Dum Dum Girls

Methuselah - San Fermin

Two-Headed Boy - Neutral Milk Hotel

I Need My Girl - The National

Hinnom, TX - Bon Iver

In The Cold, Cold Night - The White Stripes

Landfill - Daughter

Hannah Hunt - Vampire Weekend

Foreground - Grizzly Bear

Such Great Heights - Iron & Wine

Cape Canaveral - Conor Oberst

Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens

For the cover, I decided to start with a sixteenth century Dutch flower painting. I was initially attracted to the painting because they are very intricate and have many delicate details, and also have a lot of contrast between the strikingly rendered flowers and the dark backgrounds. I was influenced by really brightly colored, glitchy images and the work of artists like Kon Trubkovich and Nick Knight. For the final product, I want to have my initial image of one of the flower paintings be so distorted that there's really only a suggestion of the original image left. This is what I have so far, but I want to distort it further and bring in some more really harsh, vibrant colors. I would suggest clicking on the image because it looks way better when it's larger.

I decided to do vinyl instead of a CD because I liked the idea of having a larger space to work with, and thought that it would work to further evoke the suggestion of one of the large-scale paintings I started with. I was going to do the lettering for the title and track list by hand in Illustrator, probably in a bright color like cyan or yellow.