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2025/04/27

April 27, 2025
A large bluish-purple monster with two pointed ears and a bulky frame holds a black iPhone. The monster's face is covered by a yellow smiley-face mask. The monster is standing against a gray background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/26

April 26, 2025
A garish figure on a dark bluish-black background: the smile-with-halo emoji, wearing clown makeup, supported by two spindly legs. This nightmare is mostly yellow, but with heavy tinges of rainbow colors: crimson, neon blue, radioactive green, ultraviolet purple. Its smile is framed by smeared hot-pink lipstick; its eyes are outlined in thick white paint. Even the halo above its head looks sacrilegious: lopsided, neon-tinged white. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/06

April 6, 2025
Early evening. The sky is a darkening blue-green. The last yellow glow of the sun is still visible on the horizon. In the foreground is the husk of a tree: not more than a trunk and a few sparse branches. Hanging from one of the branches is a lot jack-o'-lantern with a smiling face. A white crescent moon sits in the top right of the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/01

April 1, 2025
A figure who looks like Uncle Pennybags from Monopoly stands against a dull gray background, wearing a bright red nose and clown makeup. On his black top hat, he's got a yellow smiley-face badge. The hat has a purple, shiny ribbon around it, and a greenish sheen. Uncle Pennybags is wearing a black suit coat with a white button-down shirt and a maroon bowtie. His mustache is an unnatural, bluish-purple, and he has blue makeup around his eyes the way a clown would. His left hand is upraised, and he's holding a small puppet figure that is wearing a jester's cap and a dress with colored polkadots. The puppet is also wearing clown makeup and is smiling and winking. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/03/28

March 28, 2025
A tall, shadowy figure stands on a dark, blurry ground against an eerie greenish-yellow sky. The figure is covered in a black cloak that is open, revealing emptiness. If an invisible person was covered in a dark cloak, this is what it would look like. Hanging next to the figure in the air is a piece of cardboard with a hole cut in it that suggests an old TV screen. The figure's right arm is upraised; it is holding up a brightly colored puppet with a yellow smiley face and blue clothing, raising its arms in an exaggerated cheerful gesture. The puppet is inside the screen, as though it is on TV. A glowing full moon hangs in the sky. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman.”

2025/03/15

March 15, 2025
A bright pink figure with very slight undertones of green and yellow stands against a light blue background. The figure is wearing a mask that looks like Susan Kare's "talking head" icon: a black-and-white, minimalist, rectangular face with a neutral expression. The figure is holding up a spray can that looks like the MacPaint spray can icon: again, a mostly black-and-white icon with square dots spraying from it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/11

March 11, 2025
A person standing on the edge of a rocky point, staring off into the void. They are facing left. Above them is a light purple sky covered with stripes of fluorescent green clouds. Despite the relatively light color scheme, the scene is at night. Greenish fog hangs around the ground. A hazy half-moon sits in the top right. A scattering of stars is visible. Streaming from the person's face is a beam of blazing white light, like that from a lighthouse. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/26

February 26, 2025
A gunmetal-green sphere hangs suspended in a bright green space. The sphere resembles a cartoon bomb, with a fuse sticking out of the top, but where the fuse would be are several small vinelike plants, one of which has a red flower at the end. The sphere has a smiley-face embossed into its surface. Bright pink lipstick is roughly smeared around its mouth, with two smeary blue paint lines for eyebrows. It has a clownish appearance. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/21

February 21, 2025
A small hill, on which is standing a tall rectangular obelisk. The obelisk has a minimalist face seen in profile: a long, straight nose and a vertical line for an eye. It looks very much like the "talking head" icon designed by Susan Kare for pre-OS X Mac system software. It is facing right. The scene is at night: the sky is dark blue and starry. The hill and obelisk are a dark indigo. Coming out of the face's mouth is a large glowing white-green speech balloon. It hangs in the air, glowing like an apparition. Standing at the base of the obelisk is a person. To the right of the person is a long ladder, leading up into the speech balloon. The person looks like they are about to climb the ladder. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/15

February 15, 2025
A gray day and a snowy landscape. On a small hill stands a large metal statue, colored a heavy dark gray with greenish tinges. The statue is of a person wearing a coat, left hand in their coat pocket, right hand upraised as though giving a speech. The person's head is a box with a question mark on it, like you'd find in a Mario level. There is snow on the statue. In the background is a blurry brown suggestion of trees. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/13

February 13, 2025
A dark green background. In the foreground is a collection of small, brightly glowing greenish-yellow rocks. Strands of mist rise up from the rocks. Standing behind them, looming out of the fog, is a large dark figure with no visible arms and a round head. The underside of its broad nose is lit eerily. Its eyes glow green-yellow in the light. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/06

February 6, 2025
A sphere falls through the darkness, leaving a vaporous reddish trail. It is glowing red in both the back and the front like a meteor. The background is a very dark, warm reddish-brown. The sphere has a face: two closed eyes and an open, laughing mouth. It looks like the "haha" reaction on Facebook. One side of the face is glowing orange-white, maybe from an unseen light source, maybe from the heat of travel itself. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/28

January 28, 2025
A blazing multicolored background: red, orange, and yellow at the top, and yellowish green below. In the center is a dark blue, purple, and black face with two glowing bluish eyes and a smiling mouth. The mouth and right eye have glowing trails running down, as though the paint has run. The top of the face has similar trails rising up, suggesting flames. Above the face is a halo, half black and half yellow. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/26

January 26, 2025
A multicolored blob of rainbow hues: red, yellow, bioluminescent green, ultraviolet purple, all on a black background. The blob has a cartoonish smile and four googly eyes facing to its right. Above it is a hazy glowing greenish halo with ultraviolet blue tinges. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/24

January 24, 2025
A blazing yellow fire in a dark area. This looks like it is in a cave, going by the earthy brown of the background. The fire covers most of the floor. Rising up from the floor on the right side is a rocky black cliff, reflecting the firelight. Perched precariously on the edge of the cliff, about to roll into the flames, is a giant spherical bomb. The bomb is rust-colored and has a smiley-face stamped on its side. A thin string of a fuse protrudes from the top. The right side of the bomb is lit with a neon-pink light, the source unseen. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/19

January 19, 2025
A furry red creature on two legs, holding a bright yellow mask in front of its face. The creature has a reddish clock key sticking out of its back. The mask is viewed from the side, in profile, and is about half the height of the figure itself. The mask has large round eyes, a sharp nose, and a smiling mouth. The figure is standing against a dark brown background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/15

January 15, 2025
A glowing white figure prances on a dark background. The figure has a greenish tinge to it, and no head. Hovering above its neck is a very large spherical orange bomb. The bomb has two glowing yellow eyes and a simple, smiling yellow mouth, which is also glowing. It looks like the head of a toy person. A fuse sticks out of the top of it. In its left hand, the figure is holding a lit candle. The image is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/13

January 13, 2025
A single wall with an uneven top stands in a barren, yellow space that suggests a desert. The side of the wall facing the viewer is in shadow, and is nearly black. Nevertheless, one can make out the dim outlines of several large sheets of paper fixed to the wall. It's not visible what's on most of them, but the largest appears to have a portrait of someone wearing a dark jacket and tie. Two large, plastic googly eyes are pasted on the person's face. They are facing right. To the right of the wall and slightly behind it, walking out from behind it, is a dark silhouette of a person. The figure is casting a shadow towards the viewer. The person has a googly eye fixed to their head as well, and that eye is looking towards the wall. A bright white sun burns in the sky.

2025/01/07

January 7, 2025
A scene at dusk or dawn: a purple sky that still has stars, with pink clouds on the horizon. Standing in the foreground is a crude, gray, roughly humanoid-shaped wooden cutout, propped up by a clearly visible board. Spray-painted on the front in white paint is a clumsy approximation of a suit and tie. Two irregularly cut eyeholes are the closest thing it has to a face. Someone has placed a black fedora on its head. Standing behind it is a dark silhouette of a much smaller person, approximately a third the height of the cutout. The person is holding a hammer and seems to be the one who has created this in the first place.

2025/01/03

January 3, 2025
A dark, slightly blurry figure with one hand placed on its hip and another hand raised in greeting. Its head looks like something from a plastic toy: bright pink skin, minimalist yellow hair, and a simple smiley-face expression. Fixed to its chest is a shiny pink heart that also looks like a toy. The figure is standing against a neutral gray background.

2025/01/02

January 2, 2025
A figure wearing a long dark buttoned coat stands with its right hand placed in its pocket, its left hand holding a glowing phone out in front of it. It is looking at the white screen. It is wearing a dark fedora with a white feather stuck in it. Its head is a sphere with a round lens on the front, like a diving helmet. The figure is standing against a neutral gray background. This is a painting rendered primarily in shades of gray.

2024/12/23

December 23, 2024
A person stands in what appears to be a museum, phone upraised, aimed at a giant sculpture of a head. The head is large and misshapen, and appears to be carved from dark gray stone. It is easily the size of a small hut, towering over the person. It is mounted on a thin pole, which itself is planted in a large block of concrete. There's a small red barricade between the head and the person. The eye of the head is a glowing yellow window, in which is seen the silhouette of another person.

2024/12/06

December 6, 2024
A figure wearing dark slacks and a white lab coat stands, arms spread in shock. On the floor is a glass test tube which the figure has just dropped, a glowing green substance spilling onto the floor and giving off a greenish steam. The figure, which may have once been a person, is bright crimson, with a fishlike face, spiky crimson hair, and bulging purple eyes. Its mouth is open. It appears to be stupefied by its remarkable transformation.

2024/12/04

December 4, 2024
A person stands in the middle of a green meadow, gripping a slingshot in front of them. They've just fired a large rock at an enormous yellow sphere with a smiling face. The sphere is hovering in the clear blue sky above and to the right, and is staring back at them.

2024/12/02

December 2, 2024
A small, gray room that looks like it may be stone or concrete. In the upper left is an open, arched window, blazing with sunlight. Beams of sunlight slant through the window, angled down and to the right. The overall sense of the place suggests a cell in a monastery. Sitting on the ground in the sunlight, staring into a phone, is a bland, humanoid figure that looks like it's roughly made of brownish clay. The phone is casting a greenish light on its face. To the left of the figure, on the wall, is an electrical outlet. In the top right is a clock reading 9:41.

2024/12/01

December 1, 2024
A lone figure stands in a blue, foggy space. The figure is holding what looks like a giant sign, except instead of lettering, it's a large, leering mask that looks like it's made of wood or metal. The right side of the mask is reflecting bright red light, the source unseen.

2024/11/30

November 30, 2024
A person stands amid grass, hoisting an enormous gray monster with one eye and two horns above their head. The monster is easily 2 to 3 times the size of the person. The sky is a bright orange yellow. The sun hangs high in the sky.

2024/11/17

November 17, 2024
A blazing sunrise or sunset. The sky is yellow; the sun is low on the horizon, turning the meadow in front of it a bright red. Rising up from the meadow is a tall metal pole with those little rungs you see on power line towers. The pole ends in a large dark gray metal sphere with a smiley-face emblazoned on it. The sphere is hollow, with an opening beneath it into which the pole disappears. There's a greenish light emanating from inside the sphere. A single bird flies overhead.

2024/11/15

November 15, 2024
A scene at sunrise or sunset. The sky is a mix of blue and gold. The sun is hazy and close to the horizon. There is a large blue meadow in which sits a giant stone obelisk. There are two faces on either side of the obelisk. The largest face is on the right side. It is smiling, with its eyes mostly closed. The smaller face is above, on the left. It is craggier and frowning.

2024/11/14

November 14, 2024
A person's head and shoulders. The face has no expression. The head and shoulders are a sort of monochrome blue with a slight highlight that makes them look as though they're carved from metal. The background of the drawing is blazing crimson. Where the person's eyes would be are red numerals displaying 12:00, like a digital clock that momentarily lost power.

2024/11/10

November 10, 2024
An eerie figure with a horned, skull-like head. The figure is wearing a tie and formal pants, and holds a briefcase in one hand and a glowing phone in the other. The figure is walking or dancing under a pink sky, in which hangs a neon-green sun or moon. The figure itself seems to be glowing with a slight greenish light. The ground it is standing on is also green.

2024/11/07

November 7, 2024
A tall figure wearing a long black coat and tie carries a briefcase in one hand and conjures up a small greenish flame in the other. The figure is also wearing a fedora. It has four legs, as though two people are under the coat with a third person standing on top of them. This is a primarily dark-teal drawing.

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