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They are hulking cubes and, no matter how much developers splash on colorful paint and add bits of ticky-tacky, they all look as if they came from the same box of Legos.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2023
Toyota put several cars on display, including one that could be taken for a virtual test drive and another with a colorful paint job inspired by Dressel’s tattoos.
From Fox News • Aug. 3, 2021
Earlier this summer, hundreds of revelers gathered in a South L.A. junkyard to celebrate J’ouvert — a traditional Caribbean fete that involves dousing yourself in colorful paint and dancing till well past sunrise.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2018
Built by the itinerant eccentric Leonard Knight, the piece was painstakingly created over 30 years, constructed with adobe clay and plaster, and bathed in thousands of gallons of colorful paint.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2014
It has all sorts of colorful paint designs on it: paint splatters, handprints, circles, hearts, rainbows.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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