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2025/03/30

March 30, 2025
A tall, thin figure stands in a red inferno, surrounded by yellow flames. It is gripping a tender of yellow fire leaping up from the ground. The fire curves towards its head and seems to envelope it in a whitish glow. A large clock key sticks out of its back. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/23

March 23, 2025
An environment that is mostly red and yellow flames. The ground is a reddish blur with slight darker tones, and appears to be an inferno. Above, in the top right, is a glowing white flaming square with a red question mark in it, similar to the power-up boxes in the Mario universe. Below, slightly to the left, is a gray stone block of the same size with greenish highlights. Placed on top of it is a circular glinting treasure, something between a gold coin and a glass bead. In the lower left corner, standing directly in the inferno, is a small figure with a flaming white halo above its head. Above it, high in the sky, circles a large birdlike figure. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/02

March 2, 2025
A person walks into what appears to be the mouth of a cave. The area outside the cave is dark purple; the inside of the cave blazes with red and orange firelight, although the fire itself is not visible. The person is illuminated on one side by the firelight, and they are casting a huge, distorted purple shadow against the cave wall. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/02/17

February 17, 2025
A tall black post, flaming on top like a torch, stands on the middle of the snow. It is giving off a greenish-blue fire, a dim column of bluish smoke rising above it. Around it, the night is a dark blue, and seems to hang in foggy waves. To the left stands a ghostly figure wearing a white sheet, two eyeholes cut out of it. The figure is emerging out of a low fog. Hovering above the ghost's head is a glowing green halo. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/11

February 11, 2025
A long serpent made of glowing white and yellow fire, curved in approximately the shape of a backwards S. Astride the serpent, riding it almost like a broomstick, is a tall human figure wearing a fedora hat with a clock key sticking out of its back. The figure is dark brown, and illuminated by the fire. The background is bright reddish orange. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/02/07

February 7, 2025
A dark blue night with a hazy sliver of a moon and no stars. Looming in the background is the vast silhouette of a classical building that resembles the front of the Parthenon: a wide triangular pediment supported by eight columns. The sky is seen between the pillars, suggesting that much of the building is gone. The moonlight reflects dimly off the right side of the pediment. Gathering in front of the building are the dark silhouettes of a crowd of people, some of whom are carrying glowing yellow candles and torches. A low bluish haze covers the ground. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/05

February 5, 2025
A figure with horns stands silhouetted in a blaze of red and orange light. The light is tinged with fluorescent greens and blues. The figure is casting a long indigo shadow and is staring at one of its hands, from which yellow fire is rising. 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".

2025/01/14

January 14, 2025
A person runs through what appears to be a blazing red-orange inferno, arms above their head, juggling a gigantic eyeball. The eyeball has an iridescent blue-green iris, oriented down, and appears to be slightly on fire itself. This is, of course, fine.

2024/12/12

December 12, 2024
A person stands against a yellow orange background. The person's arms are out to their sides, their fingers curled as though clutched in frustration. The person is mostly silhouetted; we can't really see their face. They are wearing a hat with a brim. On their stomach—or perhaps representing something inside them—are red leaping flames.

2024/11/27

November 27, 2024
A dark concrete room, lit only by a bright orange torch on the left side of the wall. In the center, dominating the room, is a tall black cabinet that looks like a server rack, filled with complex machines and red and green lights. At the bottom of the cabinet, a small door is open. Snaking out from the door is a large black arm with clawed fingers.

2024/10/19

October 19, 2024
A blue, foggy evening. A person stands on rocky, uneven ground directly to the right of an enormous bonfire. Far in the distance, on top of a blurry mountain ridgeline, is a small yellow dot that indicates another fire.

2024/09/28

September 28, 2024
A dull gray night with no stars visible, only a faded moon. In the background are the blurry outlines of a factory and a tall building with many windows glowing lurid yellow. Standing on a small hill is a figure wearing a top hat, a clock key sticking out of its back. The figure is standing over an eerie green fire and sprinkling some glowing green powder into it.

2024/09/23

September 23, 2024
A red night sky over a dark landscape. In the foreground is a large sign, mostly hidden in shadow, with dimly visible letters that spell "Closed". In the background is a yellow fireball launching into the sky, its origin or purpose unclear. On the blue mountain ridge in the distance are some tall antennae and a small building with lit windows.

2024/09/21

September 21, 2024
Two weird creatures walk under a red sky, the blurry suggestion of woods in the background. Both appear to be slightly demonic. One, the taller one, has horns and a tail. It has a hand extended, conjuring up a small fireball. The shorter creature behind it has a long, beaklike face with spikes on its back. This is a primarily red drawing.

2024/09/20

September 20, 2024
A dark figure dances on a small rocky promontory, framed by a hazy crimson backdrop. The figure is playing a long, thin horn from which a puff of fire is emerging. The figure has a white halo above its head.

2024/09/17

September 17, 2024
A figure wearing a fedora, a suit, and a tie stands at the end of a curving road. The figure is some distance from the viewer and illuminated by a blaze of yellow light, holding a flaming torch. The overall impression is that this is someone standing in the darkness holding a torch, but the overall painting is done in an impressionist style and composed of bright shades of blue, magenta, red, orange, and yellow.

2024/09/05

September 5, 2024
Two dark figures stand in a meadow of red and golden grass, speckled with small yellow and white flowers. The figure closest to the viewer is facing away from us. It is wearing a fedora hat, a coat with a yellow lightning bolt on the back, and it is holding a glowing white sword. In front of it, some distance away, crouches a figure wearing green armor and a horned mask. That creature has its right arm upraised, a ball of white fire hovering above its palm. Above, the sun hangs in a dull sky.

2024/08/27

August 27, 2024
A red sky with a tear in it: a blazing white and yellow streak that appears to be a rip in the sky. Below is a small house on supports with a sharp, conical roof. A path winds past the house. Next to the house is what looks like a warning sign with a red triangle on it. The ground is barren, almost volcanic. This is not a good place to be.

2024/08/10

August 10, 2024
A large body of water. On the right side of the painting is an outcropping of heavily wooded land jutting into the water: maybe an island, maybe the coastline. On a small beach, someone stands next to a fire, the dark smoke rising into the otherwise clear blue sky. To the right, in the dark of the trees, another figure stands next to the water. In the sky are two moons: a huge one, looming over the scene, and then a smaller one closer to the horizon. A few white birds circle over the fire.

2024/08/09

August 9, 2024
A huge red tower with hornlike turrets rises from behind two dark hills covered with trees. Cutting between the hills is a small curving road. Most of the hills are in shadow, but the trees at the top are flaming red, caught in red sunlight. The sky is blazing yellow, with no sun visible. Hovering about the tower are small reddish blips that suggest aircraft. Such an infernal vision can only be born of the dismal labors of SATAN, whose awful Clutches know no Bounds.

2024/08/03

August 3, 2024
A very small cylindrical building with a conical roof. It looks like the top of a castle turret. On the left side of the building is an open doorway, revealing glowing blue light from within. To the left of the building is a small round sign with the word "Bus" on it. The building is on a raised structure that looks like a bridge that abruptly ends in midair. Below, and all around, is an unending inferno that suggests hell. Below the building are a few tall posts with flames at the top like torches. Circling in the red sky are large batlike creatures. This is what happens when a nation doesn't prioritize public transportation infrastructure. It's a damned shame is what it is.

2024/07/02

July 2, 2024
A barren, black landscape with the Y-shaped trunk of a scorched tree poking up from it. In the background are the yellow flames and red sky of a forest fire. On the left branch of the trees is a person sitting on a makeshift seat. The person is pointing a remote control towards the right branch of the tree, on which is mounted a large-screen television. The television looks like it is set to a talk show, likely one about how fine everything currently is.

2024/06/22

June 22, 2024
A scene at night. The sky is deep blue and filled with stars. Rising out of a meadow is a short platform that looks cylindrical, like a pipe or pedestal. Hovering above it is a glowing blue-white circle with bluish flame or fog dripping off of it.

2024/06/04

June 4, 2024
A figure wearing a top hat, a dark suit, and a tie stands on a green background, juggling playing cards. The figure looks like a stage magician. Its face is not visible. Some of the playing cards are on fire. The cards also have odd symbols: a red triangular warning symbol with an exclamation mark, a black lightning bolt, a red smiley face, and an odd symbol that looks like a cross with two crossbars and a circle at the top.

2024/05/18

May 18, 2024
A dark night. A small creek winds through a black forest with a tall, conical mountain rising in the distance. Blazing into the sky from the mountain is a glowing light with a tail like a comet, suggesting a flare or a firework launched by someone on top of the mountain. In the foreground, on the bank of the creek, a small figure stands next to a fire, watching the light in the sky. This is a primarily blue drawing.

2024/04/26

April 26, 2024
A giant, spherical cartoon bomb, fuse pointed down, is attached to a long, thin cord, swinging back and forth like a wrecking ball. In this image, the bomb is caught at the left end of the swing, about to swing back. Its path will take it through a small bonfire, through which the fuse will also pass. Sitting on top of the bomb is a small human figure. The ground is steely black, the same color as the bomb; the background is fiery orange red.

2024/04/15

April 15, 2024
A dark, dungeon-like room. There is only one window in the top left: narrow, gothic-looking, and glowing red. To the right is some sort of dimly visible pillar or arch. In the center of the room is a glowing pile of coals, gray smoke billowing from it. Rising up from the very center of the coals is what appears to be a small, black plant with leaves that look like claws. The underside of the plant is illuminated red in the glow from the embers. The flower part of the plant suggests a creature, or a Venus flytrap: two mandibles open, belching yellow fire.

2024/03/06

March 6, 2024
A room, darkened. The walls and floor are the blue color of a normally white room that's mostly dark. There's one light source, though: the large door in the center of the room, in which a tall demonic figure with horns is standing. The figure looks like it is wearing a leather jacket and has one hand on the lightswitch next to the door, as though it is walking into a closet and flicking the light on. In this case, the light is an inferno of yellow flames that spill out into the floor of the room. To the right of the flaming door is a small picture in a frame, the subject indeterminate, and an electrical outlet.

2024/02/18

February 18, 2024
A huge stone head sits in a remote area at night. It's a cloudy night; a heavy gray sky, no stars or moon. The head is obelisk-shaped, covered in graffiti, and seen in profile, with an open mouth; its eye is a single hole drilled through the stone. In front of it is a small yellow bonfire, into which a person is feeding papers. This is a mostly black and dark gray drawing, with yellow and white for the fire and reflections.

2024/01/18

January 18, 2024
A wide, flat desert, bluish mountains visible in the distance. The sky is a pale green, textured with clouds, a white sun high in the sky. In the foreground is a small shack, the size of an outhouse. The arched doorway is open, revealing an entirely different interior: a blazing crimson landscape with yellow clouds. This is a portal into another terrifying world. Standing in the doorway is a figure silhouetted against the red glow of whatever land this is. Placed above the doorway is a small, green Exit sign, the kind you'd find in a European country.

2024/01/03

January 3, 2024
A dark figure stands in front of a roaring inferno. This is not a mere bonfire; it's a wall of flame, something only seen at the edge of a volcano or the mouth of Hell. The figure is holding a staff, staring into the flames. In the top right is a circular analog clock, displaying 5:05. It's time to get up or it's time for a drink, your choice.

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