Preposition: of

• color: Attenuate lines become sunbeams and grass, splotches of color are read as flowers and lakes.

Adjective modifier

• dark: Why are my chillies getting black or dark purple splotches on them?

• random: Yet even the random splotches on the page are not without meaning.

• yellow: They were coarse, unsubstantial, freckled all over with broad yellow splotches, and could neither stand wear nor public exhibition.

• green: For Scouts in camo, we used the same greenish Khaki but with dark green splotches on top.

• large: In this area there is also a large splotch of black glaze -- a clumsy mistake on an otherwise attractive vessel.