splodges

I’d recognised most of the names she’d been bandying about over the past few weeks – ‘we did a painting just like Pollock mummy, we put the paint on the paintbrush and then did throw it in splodges onto the paper’ or ‘I did a picture of a lady with a very wide face, just like Fernando Bottero’ – but Saint Phalle was not a name I was familiar with.

three 2008

I’d recognised most of the names she’d been bandying about over the past few weeks – ‘we did a painting just like Pollock mummy, we put the paint on the paintbrush and then did throw it in splodges onto the paper’ or ‘I did a picture of a lady with a very wide face, just like Fernando Bottero’ – but Saint Phalle was not a name I was familiar with.

toys 2008

The results include inky splodges of paint like sea spray and mottled fields of blue.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

Two walkers could explode into a “big bang” of cooperation if they collided—where splodges of cooperative blue were ringed by green—as defectors were won over to a more obliging way of life.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

In contrast to the sophisticated zoophile undergarments I had witnessed in the back of the van, fake-Xander had plumped for threadbare yellowed boxers whose defining pattern of brown splodges one could only decipher the meaning of when the words above the crotch were read.

The Defective Detective : The Curious Case of the Kilchester Courier Adam Maxwell 2012

Thin washes of watercolour and inky splodges depict images from rows of sunglasses to a slouching figure in a hooded top, all cast adrift against a void of white paper.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

And with that his finger moved north to Xinjiang, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia, where the map was indeed marked with huge brown and yellow splodges of desert.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

And with that his finger moved north to Xinjiang, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia, where the map was indeed marked with huge brown and yellow splodges of desert.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

And with that his finger moved north to Xinjiang, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia, where the map was indeed marked with huge brown and yellow splodges of desert.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Alone in this clinically faux-funky space (Scando-simple wooden furniture, facetious lamps, abstracts with blue splodges apparently styled after cancer cells), the mind dwelt on the oddity of this venture and its Portuguese cook.

Restaurant: Viajante, London E2 2010