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2025/05/28

May 28, 2025
A person without a head pushes a hand trolley on which is placed a giant stone head. The head is several times the size of the person and rectangular, with harsh, craggy features and empty eyes. A small hole on its cheek suggests that it might be a mask. The head is a dull, stony blue. The ground and background are bright green. 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". 

2025/03/13

March 13, 2025
A small dark-colored creature sits like a cat against a dull green background. There are hints, however, that it is not a cat: the dragon-like claws on its paws, the long thin tail, and the weird blue-green metallic sheen on its skin. What its head looks like, no one can say—it's wearing a fearsome mask larger than it is. The mask is white like a clown's face, with a grinning red-lipped mouth; a long tongue that starts out red and ends in glowing radioactive green; a bright red nose; and wild blue eyes. The mask has two pointy, red-tipped horns. 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".

2025/02/28

February 28, 2025
A figure wearing a tight-fitting purple jumpsuit stands in a featureless blue space. The suit it's wearing looks sort of like something a diver might wear: dark purple, with an orange zipper down the front and two orange rings around the feet that imply boot rims. Where the figure's head would be is a disproportionately large green glass sphere, about a third the size of its body. The sphere is filled with liquid and contains a large, dark fish, dimly visible through the glass. There are a few bubbles as well. The figure's right arm is out to one side; in its left arm, it's holding a phone with a glowing green screen. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/23

February 23, 2025
A small figure stands in a bright orange space. It is wearing a shiny purple space suit of some sort, its head encased in a perfectly spherical helmet with a circular faceplate on the front, like a diver's helmet. The faceplate glows a holographic green. The figure has one hand on its hip and the other out in front of it, and it is inspecting a small glowing green circle on its wrist, like someone checking a watch. On the front of the suit is a small pattern of four bright blue lines arranged in a diamond shape; possibly a control panel. Beyond the figure is a blaze of white and yellow light—not the sun, something else, perhaps a time portal that it has just stepped out of. The light reflects off the back of the figure, the reflection an iridescent greenish-blue like what you'd see on a beetle. 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".

2025/01/19

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".

2025/01/03

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.

2024/12/01

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.

2024/11/26

November 26, 2024
A superhero in a tight red outfit stands purposefully on a small rocky promontory, framed against a bright yellow sky, hands on hips. The hero has blue boots with gold stripes, a billowing blue cape, white eyes, and two lightning-bolt-shaped horns. Emblazoned on their chest are the words "Log off" in gold all-caps lettering. Show yourself, coward. I will never log off.

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.

2024/10/26

October 26, 2024
A grainy, monochrome drawing of four eerie figures gathered in front of a digital camera on a tripod. The foremost figure is a small person wearing a dark suit and tie with an ID badge. The person's face is blank, the eyes empty, as though it's a mask. Standing behind them is a figure with devil horns and glasses, and a figure wearing a white robe and a bowler hat. That figure's face is also masklike, with empty eyes and a mouth stretched in an unsettling smile. The rearmost figure is a dark, indistinct blur, with the suggestion of a suit coat and glowing white eyes. Something that could either be the sun or the moon hangs in the sky above.

2024/10/03

October 3, 2024
A figure walks in cartoonishly large reddish boots that are easily twice its size. It is carrying a mask that is also much larger than it is; a lavender-tinted monster mask with a heavy brow, an open mouth,and fangs. There is a blurry tree line in the background. This is a predominantly blue drawing.

2024/09/10

September 10, 2024
A clown with a dark suit and tie, a top hat, and long indigo hair. The clown has a bright red nose, a white face, red lips, and is holding several colored balls, one of which has a smiling face on it. They are wearing several colored star stickers.

2024/09/09

September 9, 2024
A headless figure wearing a red suit with a yellow shirt and a blue-green tie balances on a blue-green ball. The ball has a frowning face crudely drawn on it. The figure's arms are up, as though it is juggling, and it is surrounded by random colored objects: stars, triangles with exclamation points in the center, spheres with smiling faces on them. There is a neon yellow heart with a red, frowning face and X's for eyes. Hovering above the figure's neck, where a head would be, is a red devil mask with empty eyes and an eerie smile. The figure is set against a dark blue background.

2024/09/02

September 2, 2024
A figure, colored leather-brown, wearing a coat and tie and carrying a crooked walking stick. The figure's head is a combination of two faces: one looking forwards, and one seen in profile. The figure's right eye is shared by both faces. The face in profile is looking down and to the left, at the deep right pocket of the coat in which is seen a third face. The figure is wearing a dark brown top hat. The drawing is on a tan yellow background.

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.

2024/08/08

August 8, 2024
A human face in profile, facing right. The face appears to be carved out of stone: smooth dark surface, a few cracks and chips here and there. The eye is a round porthole-style window, glowing fluorescent green. A small figure inside is pressed up against the window, looking out, hands against the glass.

2024/06/28

June 28, 2024
A giant yellow smiley-face, mounted on the side of a building as though it's a billboard. The sky is the dark blue of oncoming dusk, pink-tinged in the top right, and is slightly foggy. On top of the smiley-face sits a small hunched-over figure with dark fur and horns, wearing an angry-face mask.

2024/05/31

May 31, 2024
A short figure with a large Napoleon-style tricorn hat and a heavy overcoat. The figure has a fashionable cane or a stick in its right hand. Its left hand is planted on its hip. Its smooth face and empty eyes suggest that it is wearing a mask. In the center of its hat is a very realistic eye. It is standing on a small hill. This is a primarily purple drawing, with highlights rendered in bioluminescent green.

2024/05/26

May 26, 2024
A creature with two legs and one arm. The creature is simple, brightly colored, and set against a black background, as though cut out of construction paper. Its body is reddish-orange with touches of magenta. It has spikes on its shoulder and arm. It is wearing a bright green and yellow mask with three red eyes and a beard that looks like it's made of connections on a circuit board. The mask has two horns. Floating above the creature are blurry multicolored bubbles.

2024/05/17

May 17, 2024
A Martian landscape: yellow sky, red soil, desert landscape. Hovering above the ground is a strange figure. The top of its head is perfectly flat, its eyes are large and empty, and it has a haggard expression. Its face looks almost like a mask. It has thin arms and two short legs. It is being suspended above the ground by a very small red balloon attached to its backpack.

2024/05/15

May 15, 2024
A dark figure with long, clawed hands and a pointed tail stands on a small promontory. In its right hand, the figure holds up a glowing blue orb. The figure's head is white, with two long, thin horns, a thin scraggly beard, and empty black eyes that suggest a mask. The background is dark blue, suggesting night.

2024/04/25

April 25, 2024
A ghostly blue-green figure standing against a dark background. The figure is wearing a suit jacket and black tie, with an ID badge on its left breast and three stars on its right shoulder. The figure does not have a head. Floating above its empty neck is a round, blazing orange object that looks like a coin. The head on the coin is gaunt, with staring, empty eyes and two horns. Floating above the coin is a pale blue halo.

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.

2024/04/21

April 21, 2024
A grim-faced bald man with a disproportionately large head and tiny legs stand in a dark area, holding a scepter or baton with a smiley face on it. A closer look at the head suggests that this may be rubber mask: the eye looks more like a hole. There is a very real, very red eye behind the mask. This is a primarily monochrome drawing, rendered in shades of black and eerie green.

2024/04/17

April 17, 2024
A large gold coin with a face in profile on it. The face is, like that on most currency, a bald man with a hard, vacant stare. Unlike most currency figureheads, this one has devil horns. The coin serves as a head for a figure wearing a dark suit. The figure stands on a blue background.

2024/04/03

April 3, 2024
A small figure wearing a gray-black jumpsuit with a glowing green lightning bolt on the front of it, and a small orange lightning bolt on the shoulder, walks in an empty space that's entirely a light periwinkle blue. The figure is wearing a very large, bulky orange helmet, the front of which is occupied entirely by a giant eyeball with an iridescent green iris. The helmet has horns. In front of the figure, attached to a string that the figure is holding in its left hand, is a small, orange sphere, also with an eyeball in the front of it. That eye is blue. In its right hand, the figure is holding an orange sphere with no eyeball. The shadowy silhouette of a zeppelin hovers bizarrely in the background.

2024/03/24

March 24, 2024
A large purple head with an unsettling smile, exposed iridescent-green teeth, and no hair or ears. The head is lit from behind with green light, and looks sort of like an Easter Island statue. The head's eye is a round yellow window in which the silhouette of a person's head can be seen. The person appears to be wearing the head like a costume; their legs are visible. The background of the drawing is red-orange.

2024/02/07

February 7, 2024
A head, rendered in a series of bright colors: red, bright, yellow, blue, crimson. The head is floating in space on a white textured background. Its mouth is open, its eyes are wide, and it has a surprised expression. It has three horns and bristly crimson hair. It looks like a monster.

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