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2025/08/30

August 30, 2025
A small creature perched on a thin branch. The creature has horn-shaped ears, giving it a devilish appearance, a sharp curved beak seen in profile, and beady, round eyes. It is dark-colored, with iridescent tinges of indigo, blue, and green. Its eye is harshly shiny, with blue and crimson highlights. It has curved striations on its side, all of which make it look machinelike. It has a long tail and is sitting against a bright crimson background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/29

August 29, 2025
An amorphous blob comprised of precisely arranged vertical lines and a cacophanous blend of colors. The lines, while perfectly vertical and regularly positioned, have different heights and positions, suggesting digital video distortions or the raster lines on old cathode ray tube screens. The colors—where to start? Blue, red, crimson, green, and yellow, organized in a way that is somewhere between the dissonant opposite of a rainbow and what you see when you rub your eyes too hard. The blob has six human legs, as though it is several people walking together. In the center of it is a glowing, semi-white icon of an eye. All of this is on a searing blue-green background. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/08/26

August 26, 2025
A dark, hulking figure—humanoid, but suggestive of a bear or ape, with long clawlike fingers—shambles forwards in a barren brown space. Where its neck would be is a neatly defined hole, revealing a hollow interior, as though the creature is actually a suit or shell moving on its own volition. Hovering above the hole, casting a golden light on it, is a glowing yellow sphere with a smiley face on it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/18

August 18, 2025
A dull blue world. In the background, a vast factory with tall windows and two tall smokestacks looms out of the fog. Next to it is a blurry treeline. The smokestacks have small white glowing lights on them. In the foreground is a large pipe sticking out of the ground. The pipe has a hinged lid, like a manhole cover, which is raised. Climbing out of the pipe is a white humanoid creature. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/09

August 9, 2025
An oddly shaped building stands against a pale green sky. The building looks like two halves of a house, one stacked on another. The lower half has a door with an ornate oval window. The upper half has a single window, and overhangs the ground. Dangling from underneath it, like a bat, is an unsettling figure with two winglike arms, a coat and top hat, and two glowing green eyes. In the background is the blurry suggestion of a treeline. This is a primarily green painting, signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/07

August 7, 2025
A huge, dark, owl-esque creature stands on top of a very small house with a circular window. The window glows an eerie green, revealing a dark silhouette of a figure wearing a coat and tie. The owl is about the size of the house, with large yellow eyes looking down at the house. All around is a dark blue, starless night. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/08/05

August 5, 2025
A large red monster with devil horns stands against a blue background. The monster has long arms and long fingers. It is wearing a black tie and a light blue ID badge. Its face is obscured by a mask that looks like a yellow smiley face. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/19

July 19, 2025
A blue, gelatinous creature with several conical tentacles sits in a dark space. The front of it is illuminated with a greenish light. It has a jagged, frowning mouth and square eyes; its facial features are white and glowing. It looks like one of the ghosts from Pac-Man in vulnerable mode. Above its head is a foggy ultraviolet-ish halo. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/29

June 29, 2025
A flat, barren expanse with a small platform in the middle. A large, horned monster is being lowered onto the platform, probably via a crane. The monster is a purplish orange and is holding a suitcase. To the left of the monster stands a figure wearing an orange helmet and construction vest with reflective yellow stripes. The figure is directing the crane. The ground is a dark purple; the sky is lavender. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/21

June 21, 2025
A misshapen, lumpy, drab-green creature wanders in a bright green world. The creature is slightly hunched over, with a weird, unnatural-looking arm and clawlike hand. The creature is wearing a black VR headset on its face, along with AirPods, an Apple Watch, and a 90s-style pager on its hip. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/14

June 14, 2025
A black background with a red symbol on it: a circle with a diagonal bar through it, the "prohibited" symbol. Inside the symbol, appearing to be reaching out from it, is a minimalist white cartoon figure of a shouting man wearing a crown too large for his head and clutching a phone. The man's tie overlaps the lower boundary of the red symbol. This, of course, is Donald Trump, rendered in a Ghostbusters symbol. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/31

May 31, 2025
A blurry impressionist painting of a crimson figure with two horns and a glowing white halo hovering above its head. The background is an eerie blend of aqua green and yellow. The brushstroke texture gives the overall painting an amorphous, dreamlike quality. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/26

May 26, 2025
A large, rusty metal machine staggers forwards on two mechanical legs. The machine looks like something between a construction vehicle and a short, squat locomotive. It has a large grill in front,a small cab up top with no windshield, and a small door in the side. A tall smokestack extends up from the front hood. The machine has headlights and yellow warning stripes, with a faded red triangle painted on the side. Moss and dirt hangs from the underside. No driver is visible. The sky is an eerie goldenrod yellow. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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".

2025/04/16

April 16, 2025
A scarecrow against a dark blue evening sky. The scarecrow wears a ragged white shirt with a greenish sheen, a red necktie, and a red-and-white-striped top hat. The scarecrow's head is a large, orange, pumpkin-shaped object with a single blue eye in the center. Sitting on the brim of its hat is a black bird. A fog hangs over the ground. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/12

April 12, 2025
A lone figure stands on a darkened, textured ground, against a turquoise and yellow sky. The figure appears startled, stepping backwards, a large tobacco pipe falling out of its hand. The pipe is emitting a thin trail of smoke. The smoke rises into the air, forming the semi-transparent shape of a large ghostly creature with a long, wolflike snout, pointed ears, and faint eyes. The creature is reaching towards the person with both arms. 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.”

2025/03/23

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".

2025/03/13

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".

2025/03/10

March 10, 2025
A strange figure with four legs, no arms, and a large eye. The figure is shaped roughly like a Pac-Man ghost, with a rounded head. Each of its feet is wearing a shoe. It looks like it is hastily assembled from sheets of copper, or some other metal with a dull green patina. There are visible seams across its body, and some wrinkling that suggests cloth. A few bolts are also visible. It has a large yellow eye with a similarly metallic iris and a red pupil. Hanging above its head is a glowing white halo. It is standing on a bright yellowish-green background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/09

March 9, 2025
A stocky figure with horns stands on a thin, rickety bridge with moss hanging from the underside. The sky is a light green, accented by hazy yellow sunlight. A yellow sun sits in the top right, partially obscured by glowing yellow clouds. The figure is holding a red umbrella with white polkadots over a bluish egg positioned on the bridge in front of it. The umbrella looks a little like a mushroom. The figure is mostly dark colored, with iridescent highlights of green, purple, and red. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/03/04

March 4, 2025
A small raft sits in the middle of a large body of water. The sky and the water are a bright sunny mix of red and yellow; it's not clear where the sky ends and the water begins. There is a suggestion of fog. Dominating the scene is a vast black pirate flag—a ragged, grinning skull and crossbones, hoisted on an extremely unstable-looking flagpole that is cobbled together from smaller pieces of wood. The pole leans rightward at a slight angle. Standing on the raft to the left of the flag is a much smaller figure that looks like it is wearing a suit. It is raising its right hand and brandishing a pirate sword. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/24

February 24, 2025
A tall, very powerful-looking figure stands, arms flexed to show off their muscular build. The person looks like a boxer or bodybuilder: very tall and wearing athletic shorts, with a broad chest and a V-shaped figure. They are standing on dully colored grass in front of a yellow sky, the sun high above, and are mostly silhouetted, with the sunlight reflecting red off their shoulders and arms. Their right foot is propped on a short, square box with a yellow star on it. Thin strings are connected to their head, hands, and feet, as though they are a marionette. The strings extend upward into the sky. It's not clear who's at the end of them. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/14

February 14, 2025
A dark, foggy night. On the right of the painting, a rickety dock extends across greenish fog that covers the water. It is supported by two unsteady-looking pilings. At the very end of the dock is an even more rickety lamppost, from which hangs a glowing greenish lantern. Moss hangs from the underside of the dock. Also hanging from the underside of the dock, like a bat, is an unsettling figure wearing a top hat and coat. Going by the two glowing green eyes under the hat, it is not sleeping. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". Happy Valentine's Day.

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".

2025/02/11

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". 

2025/02/05

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".

2025/01/30

January 30, 2025
A tall, blurry figure with a stovepipe hat stands against a grayish-tan background. In the top right, a hazy sun casts a watery yellow light. The figure's only facial features are two glowing eyes. In the center of the figure's chest is a glowing green circular window the iridescent color of a holograph. A bluish silhouette is visible in the window. 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".

2025/01/22

January 22, 2025
A pink, luminescent blob that looks sort of like a Pac-Man ghost: round, with short, conical tentacles. The blob has two googly eyes haphazardly placed on it, and a gold star sticker beneath one of the eyes. There is a glowing green halo above its head. It is traveling to the right. It is in a dark, featureless space. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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