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2025/03/17

March 17, 2025
A dark forest in the dead of night. Dark purple tree trunks loom in the background. Stepping among them, seemingly rising up out of the ground, is a tall, ghostly figure glowing greenish-white. One of the figure's legs touches the ground, and is surrounded by a greenish glow; the other is disappearing into a hole in a tree trunk. The whole scene is fringed with a bioluminescent green. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/05

March 5, 2025
A dark blue night with a full moon in the top left of the sky. A tall ghost, white with a blue hazy glow about it, moves through the grass and fog, right hand out in front of it. It is wearing an orange shield-shaped mask that is featureless except for a single eye, looking to the left. The ghost has a white clock key sticking out of its back. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/27

February 27, 2025
A lonely road runs past a decrepit telephone pole and two dim houses. The atmosphere is foggy. The telephone pole leans at an angle, broken wires dangling from it. The entire scene is a dull aqua green. Wandering along the road on the left side of the painting is a translucent, ghostly figure. High in the sky sits a translucent, ghostly sun. 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".

2025/02/08

February 8, 2025
A black sky with only a full moon. The ground is flat, white, and barren, with a white fog rising from it. Standing in the fog is a ghostly white figure reaching towards the moon. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/01

February 1, 2025
A bright red ghost stands in the dark, surrounded by glowing bioluminescent-green mist rising up from the ground. The ghost looks like the silhouette of a person covered in a bright red sheet. Its left arm is outstretched and hazy, fading out. It is holding a bright red balloon on a string. There is no visible light source, but it seems to be lit from two directions: an eerie greenish-blue light from the rear, and a yellow light from the front. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/29

January 29, 2025
A small birdhouse on a tall, uneven stick, in the middle of a dark meadow at night. Heading towards it from different directions are three glowing entities that look sort of like minnows made of glowing green light. The surrounding sky is dark blue.

2025/01/17

January 17, 2025
An empty glass flask—spherical body, long cylindrical neck—floats in a starry black sky. The flask is mostly colorless with a slight greenish sheen. Sitting on the rim of the opening is a hazy, greenish human figure, arms and legs blurry and elongated like a ghost. The figure has one arm raised. The figure is maybe a quarter the size of the flask and could easily fit inside it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/11

January 11, 2025
A rusty, dilapidated metal mailbox on a decrepit-looking post. The flag is up. The surrounding environment is the dull blue of late evening or early morning. A low fog covers the weedy ground; a blurry treeline is visible in the background. The mailbox has moss hanging from the underside. Wherever this is, it's been a long while since anyone's put a letter in it. That doesn't mean it's empty, though; a hazy, ghostlike blur is drifting from the mailbox's door-less opening. Nature—or however we define the wild expanse of the non-human universe—abhors an empty mailbox.

2025/01/04

January 4, 2025
A snowy landscape. The sky is the dark blue of early morning or evening. On the left side of the painting is a blurry suggestion of snow covered trees. On the right side is the dark outline of a house with snow on the roof. The house has two dark, arched windows. In the leftmost window is a single burning candle. Looming behind the candle is a large, shadowy silhouette with two dim gray eyes. In the sky, hovering around the house, are three white shapes that look vaguely like comets, except that they are clearly moving independently and of their own volition. They look almost as though they are trying to find a way into the house.

2024/12/17

December 17, 2024
A winter night. The ground is covered in snow. The sky is deep blue and filled with stars. A hazy, bluish humanoid form that looks like a ghost stands next to a round sign with a bus icon on it. On the left side of the painting is a blurry collection of dark tree branches in the distance. On the right side are black, more sharply defined branches with snow on them.

2024/09/01

September 1, 2024
A rocky mountaintop at night. On the right is a small plateau that looks a little like a platform, with stairs leading up to it. Hovering over the plateau is a tall, featureless ghost with two eyes and a halo. It is phosphorescent green. Near the stairs is a small sign with an icon of a ghost and an arrow pointing towards the actual ghost. To the left stands a person, one arm raised. In the distance is the tree-covered outline of another mountain. A crescent moon hangs in the sky. This is a mostly purple drawing.

2024/08/24

August 24, 2024
A person wearing a jacket and tie stands to the left inside a giant stone arch. The back wall of the arch is covered with graffiti. The person looks startled and is peering upward. Hovering in the top left of the arch is a blurry, glowing, fluorescent green apparition.

2024/08/17

August 17, 2024
A person plays a horn while in front of them, a white ghostlike apparition gushes out of a top hat, seemingly summoned by the horn. The apparition has two horns and a halo, one hand upraised. This is a mostly yellow drawing, with the hat and person drawn in dark brown.

2024/08/12

August 12, 2024
A monochrome, charcoal drawing of a dark figure wearing a long black coat and holding a black umbrella. It stands by the side of the road, buildings in the background. Most unsettlingly, the figure is wearing a ghost mask from the Scream film series. The buildings in the background look like shopping centers and fast food places; the McDonalds logo can be seen. This is at night, the full moon high in the sky. Unlike most of the other stuff I post on here, I didn't imagine this; I saw this person standing by the side of the road while driving home tonight.

2024/07/20

July 20, 2024
A dark, dingy laboratory with a high ceiling and pipes running along it. To the left, dominating the room, is a huge vertical glass tank with a rounded top that looks sort of like a wine bottle without a neck. Suspended in the tank, one glowing hand pressed against the glass, is the blurry form of a fluorescent greenish humanoid shape. A person stands to the right of the tank, looking at a glowing white tablet. Above, a long fluorescent bulb casts a lurid green light over the scene. Two computer monitors are bolted to the wall. One is displaying a green screen; one is displaying a blue screen. Guess which one is running Windows.

2024/05/24

May 24, 2024
A dark night sky with a field of bright red grass below. Planted in the middle of the field is a small sign, pointing to the right, with no visible text. Hovering above the sign, floating through the air, are glowing green wisp-like creatures that suggest ghosts or spirits. High in the sky is a bright red disc that could be a moon.

2024/05/19

May 19, 2024
A tablet, with a ghostly face reflected in the black screen. The tablet appears to be off, but a green light at the top next to the camera indicates that it is recording something. Reflected on its screen is a blurry, pale face with no expression and empty eyes. They say that sometimes, the abyss looks back. "When one looks long into nothingness, one becomes nothing, empty." –Theodore Van Rooy (totally random guy on StackExchange)

2024/05/09

May 9, 2024
A glowing white figure stands on an icy surface at night, with blurry suggestions of a tree line in the background. The figure appears to be wearing a hat with a brim, and has a clock key sticking out of its back. It is holding up a black eyeball with a bright red iris in front of its face, staring at it. An iridescent green glow hangs in the sky. This is a bluish-indigo drawing.

2024/04/22

April 22, 2024
A ghostly white figure in a meadowlike wasteland holds up a large white mask with a cartoonish smiley-face on it. Far away, on a hill, another ghostly figure holds up a similar white mask, but it's too small to see an actual face. This is a primarily black and teal drawing.

2024/04/11

April 11, 2024
A dark, starry night. A large crescent moon hangs in the sky, so large and close that the craters and surface texture are visible. Below is a small pond, surrounded by grass and a few trees. Standing by the pond, white glow reflected in the water, is a ghostly white figure.

2024/03/25

March 25, 2024
A dark, cloudy evening—or perhaps morning—at sea. The sky is a dark blue, and the water is a very dark blue. Standing up in a very small boat is a ghostly greenish figure holding up a glowing green lantern. Far away, nearly on the horizon, is another small boat, with another pale figure holding up a lantern. Time passes slowly out here.

2023/12/05

December 5, 2023
A spooky, abandoned castle looms out of the fog on a dim evening. Visible is a tall, wide tower the size and shape of an apartment building, with a crenellated top, and—in front of it—a smaller wing with a sloped roof and a round window at the top. Behind it is a forest. Standing in front of the castle is a small figure holding a glowing yellow lantern. The figure appears to be standing in a low layer of fog. At the top of the tower, looking back, is another figure: a glowing white one. The background is mostly a dull blue with hints of green and yellow. The drawing is shades of dark blue.

2023/11/28

November 28, 2023
A tall, wedge-shaped rock. It looks like a stone spearhead planted point-up in the ground. Emanating from two points in the rock is a ghost. A moon—or maybe the sun?—hangs in the sky. The drawing is black ink on a yellow background. The ghost is white, and the celestial body is also rendered in white.

2023/10/31

October 31, 2023
A spooky house. The house is tall and thin—"spindly" might be a better word—with at least three stories, and two covered porches, one above the other. The architecture is almost cartoonish: curvy and warped. Most of the windows are dark, except for the very top one in the attic, which glows a bright, otherworldly green. Nothing is seen in this window, just the light. Above the house hangs a large, orange moon, the shadows suggesting a skeletal face. On the first-floor covered veranda stands a blurry, translucent white figure.

2023/10/17

October 17, 2023
A figure that appears to be wearing a ghost costume made of a sheet. The figure is yellow, with no arms, and is also wearing a crimson broad-brimmed hat that looks like something a cartoon spy would wear. The figure's face is a simple smiley-face arrangement of two round holes for eyes and a smiling empty mouth.

2023/09/26

September 26, 2023
A hulking, humanoid figure that could only be described as "vast", in the way that a gorilla is vast. The figure is set against a bright red background. The right side of the figure is black, as though in shadow; the left side is white. The figure's right hand is placed across its chest, as if it is taking an oath. The left side is blurry and foggy; fading away, or not all there to begin with.

2023/08/12

August 12, 2023
A black background. In the foreground is a blue, octopus-like creature with four short, triangular tentacles. The creature has empty eyes, and extending from the middle of the right eye downwards is a straight-edged seam that suggests this may be a mask or a costume. No one appears to be inside it. The creature is illuminated on two sides by a neon green light and a bright crimson light.

2023/02/09

February 9, 2023
A sweater and shirt, empty as though they're worn by an invisible person. Where the head would be floats a large, iridescent soap bubble.

2022/03/11

March 11, 2022
A ghostly figure climbs out of a pipe at night
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