Art and Design Foundation Courses positively encourage innovation, but Simon Crack has taken this a huge step further by developing the technique into a book guaranteed to captivate children – and adults! Every member of the Splat collection is brilliant, but my own favorite is Splooge (087. Initially, I was fascinated by the background to Splats: A Collection of Crazy Creatures. Simon Crack uses language that would challenge under-eights, but the amusing stories have appeal for any age, and the chance to “make a mess” with paint is irresistible. Both are blue, but utterly different, and have places to name the creatures they cause the reader to imagine, including in “Latin”, and yet more lines for the child’s description. After that, come two Create Your Own pages. Following the dedication page are sixteen “splats”, each with a short comment about them. Even the simply worded title page – SPLATS by Simon Crack – intrigues with a green splatter of paint cleverly adapted to form a gloomy creature the shape of his mouth being dictated by what might be a dog with its mouth open. Splats: A Collection of Crazy Creatures is a unique book for children. Colored inks were randomly dripped on paper and then illustrated into creatures when the ink dried. The splat creatures were each created organically. Created by the author Simon Crack as a final project for his college Art and Design foundation course. A collection of crazy creatures with truly bizarre features! Splats were born in 2001.
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