Within a Sky Full of Earth

spat•ter |ˈspatər| • verb [trans.]
cover with drops or spots of something: passing vehicles spattered his shoes and pants with mud.
• scatter or splash (liquid, mud, etc.) over a surface: he spatters grease all over the stove.
• [ intrans. ] fall so as to be scattered over an area: she watched the raindrops spatter down.
noun
a spray or splash of something.
• a sprinkling : there was a spatter of freckles over her nose.
• a short outburst of sound : the sharp spatter of shots.

ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense [splutter while speaking]): frequentative, from a base shared by Dutch, Low German spatten ‘burst, spout.’
[ON PHOTHOSHOP USE FILTERS / BRUSH STROKES / SPATTER AND BLOW THE HELL OUT OF THE IMAGE. FOR EVEN BEST RESULTS SRINKLE WITH A LITTLE NOISE AFTERWARDS: FILTERS / NOISE / ADD [LOTS OF] NOISE.]