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Enya is placed slightly off center with her skirt flowing towards the opposite side of the cover, which once again helps lead the eye around the design. A small title has been placed neatly below the Enya logo in brown which complements the cool teal colour of the Enya logo and both colours are reflected in the photograph. The textures of this setting add a lot of character to the design and the green hue of this image is used throughout the cover. In the photograph used for this cover, Enya appears to be in a very old building with worn wallpaper, old wooden floors and an old broken couch. Instead of receiving the usual booklet with this album, the pamphlet inside folds out into five panels. The front of the album mainly consists of brown and cream with a few dabs of light blue, while the inside focuses more on blues and reds. The interior is a bit of a collage made up of various old photographs mingled with the new design elements of this album and the large song-titles in the same script front from the front cover. The cover image appears to be a photograph from the “Shepherd Moons” era and the only image that seems to have been taken especially for this album is the one of Enya, we can only assume it is Enya, taken from the back facing a starry sky as a silhouette. I 1quite like the font chosen for the album title, it is a script that works well with the theme of the night sky. Instead, it has “The Best Of Enya” written in a handwriting font in capital letters. I found it rather interesting that this is the only Enya album apart from her very first one that does not have the Enya logo. The elements used throughout are quite intricate and almost resemble a bit of a collage, yet the design is very clean, with plenty of white space on the front. The theme of astronomy is a prominent one in this album and it’s no wonder, with a name like “Paint The Sky With Stars”. This gold effect matches the yellow hues of the front colour and is well complimented by the red of Enya’s lips and her blue eyeshadow and robes, two stark prime colours. The rest of the booklet seems to have a pixilated zoomed-in image which almost resembles gold specs, perhaps to reflect the song “Once You Had Gold”. She is much smaller on this design compared to the rest and the moon-like marble image above her is re-used for the CD itself and on the back cover. All the design elements of this cover are centred, the eye then follows Enya’s robes as they drape over to the right of the image. As many of you may know, the cover is based on "The Young King of the Black Isles" by Maxfield Parrish. Here we have earthy tones again with a yellow hue and some royal blue. The robe Enya’s wearing matches the maroon colour scheme well and carries on the Celtic theme of the album. On the front Enya the design has Enya framing the bottom left of the image and then the eye is led to an almost illegible inscription on the wall of the church. The front cover seems to represent a modern religion in the Celtic regions, while the back almost echoes back to Pagan times. This design features earthy tones to compliment the photograph of Enya posing outside an old church. The photo of Enya takes up most of the space on the front cover design. The blue gives the design a much colder feel and the branches in the background had an almost wintery theme. This album’s colour scheme consists entirely of hues of blue, except for the logo in a golden colour. This is the first appearance of the Enya logo in a golden hue that matches the background and the font used on the interior appeared almost handwritten which suited the rest of the design well and is still rather popular among fans. The colours are a mix of warm dark reds which are reflected in Enya’s lip colour and cool blues in Enya’s outfit as well as golden brown and black. Half of Watermark’s design consists of rough painted flowers over an abstract background, and the other half of it is a rather melancholy photograph of Enya. It is, however, quite a suitable design which suits the decade of its release. This album does not yet feature the more theatrical and elegant wardrobe of her later albums and it is clear to see that the Enya brand and image had not yet been established with her debut album. It appears the Enya logo we all know had not yet been developed at this stage. This image is confined inside a small block in the centre of the album with the word “Enya” written above in caps using an unfamiliar font. A graphic artist reviews the album artwork Lizzy1eĮnya’s self-titled first album featured a rather stark black and white image of her crouched between, what appears to be two angry guard dogs.