The large paintings have mottled gray backgrounds; gray is a color -- or better a non-color -- strongly associated with Mr. Johns.
A few weeks later, a package arrives and the walls of parents' houses are adorned with utterly embarrassing, almost always awful, overexposed graduation pictures with the same mottled grey background as was used for 'official' nursery pictures nearly two decades ago.
At Moretti, a dealer based in Florence and London, a 15th-century work by Alvise Vivarini, a Venetian painter, with a mottled orange background framed in handsome gold leaf was flanked by two small Gerard Richter abstract oils in which orange and yellow dominate.
The Web site of the newspaper Bild, which famously declared "We Are Pope" nearly eight years ago when Benedict was elected, ran an enormous headline that read "Our German Pope Benedict Steps Down," followed by his entire statement in German on a slightly mottled brown background, as if it were old parchment.
The small Amazon river fish Microphilypnus amazonicus and the shrimps it associates with, Pseudopalaemon gouldingi, are so transparent as to be "almost invisible"; further, these species appear to select whether to be transparent or more conventionally mottled (disruptively patterned) according to the local background in the environment.
Details merge into the background, which is often too dark or mottled.
Here and elsewhere he uses a splatter technique and the background against which each circle is place is mottled; this furthers a feeling of remoteness, perhaps like the surface of the moon.
Our isolation of AIVs from resident (nonmigratory) mottled ducks and mottled duck/mallard hybrids suggests AIV transmission on the wintering ground and is consistent with previous reports (13 ).
Shot against stark white backgrounds, in the style of classic botanical prints, each leaf has the presence and individuality of a portrait — tattered, mottled, torn, yet always somehow grand.
Ringger's lighting here was dim, mottled.
