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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.

2025/02/08

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".

2025/02/07

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".

2025/02/03

February 3, 2025
A person wearing a fedora and a suit runs across a meadow at night, holding up a large butterfly net. They're trying to capture an object hurtling out of the sky. The object is small, the size of a large frisbee, and saucer-shaped. It is leaving a slight glowing trail. Both the front and back of the object are glowing white with heat. The sky is a greenish-blue, clear and starry. 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.

2025/01/25

January 25, 2025
A tall, thin human figure walks through a dark meadow. The sky is a bluish-green and looks like late evening. The figure's head is a desk lamp, casting a glowing white beam. The figure is holding a magnifying glass in front of it, pointed towards the ground. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/09

January 9, 2025
A bright yellow sky. In the top right of the sky is a round white sun. Hanging from the top of the sky is a light with a gray, metal, hemispherical shade, like the sort of light you'd find hanging from a ceiling. The light is casting a cone of darkness. Standing under the cone is a dark purple figure holding a lantern. The lantern casts a warm, yellow glow in the darkness of the anti-light coming from above. Stars are visible in the darkness, as though the lamp isn't just casting darkness, but night.

2024/12/31

December 31, 2024
A blue night sky filled with exploding bursts of color: red, yellow, various shades of green and blue that cover most of the sky. A small building sits on a hill illuminated by the fireworks. One window in the side of the building is illuminated. Happy 2025.

2024/12/29

December 29, 2024
An impressionist scene of an abandoned building at night. The building is an old stone house missing a roof. One inner wall of the house is visible; an arched window lets in moonlight. On the wall facing the viewer is an empty arched doorway with a few stairs beneath it. A small stony hill leads down from the building. Greenish moonlight reflects off the hill. In the sky, the moon blazes white. This is a predominantly blue painting composed with heavy brushwork and bright colors. The brushstrokes surrounding the moon are a mix of white, yellow, bright, green, and various shades of blue.

2024/12/25

December 25, 2024
A bright starry night. Three tall, robed figures stand on a train station platform. While they are mostly silhouetted, the approximate colors of their robes are still visible. The leftmost figure, wearing reddish robes, is staring at its phone. The middle figure wears yellowish robes; the rightmost figure wears blue, and is facing left. All three are wearing crowns. They are standing under a small roof, from which is hanging a sign with glowing red lettering. What the sign says is unclear, but this is presumably a station timetable. High in the sky, on the right, a white star blazes.

2024/12/21

December 21, 2024
A dark space. A single light hangs from the top, casting a lurid blue conical glow like a spotlight. Standing under it is a dark silhouetted figure holding a black umbrella, as though trying to ward off the light like rain.

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.

2024/12/13

December 13, 2024
A clear blue night with a full moon. The ground is covered in light bluish fog. Emerging through the fog is an ominous figure: humanoid, but misshapen and bulky, as though hastily assembled from rock or clay. The figure's face is not visible. The moonlight glints dully off it. Hovering above its head is a glowing white halo. This is a mostly blue painting.

2024/12/07

December 7, 2024
A person stands on a low balcony of what looks like a mansion. It's a clear, starry night. The sky is dark blue. The side of the mansion, on the left side of the painting, has a large, arched window glowing yellow. We can't see the door to the balcony but it's probably open, since a yellow glow is illuminating the back of the person. The person is leaning over the balcony, a lit cigarette in their hand. Below the balcony, concealed in the darkness, is a shadowy figure wearing a hoodie. The figure looks like they are looking up. They have a clock key sticking out of their back. All around, the night is serene; the darkness like a still pool of water, waiting to be shattered.

2024/11/29

November 29, 2024
A gray, foggy night. A house and car are visible in the distance; beyond the car is a foggy tree line. Approaching in the foreground is a dark figure holding a flashlight. Only one window, in the top right of the house, is lit. Someone is expecting someone.

2024/11/25

November 25, 2024
A lone figure stands in a foggy blue-greenish space. Fog hangs low over the blue ground. The figure is holding up a glowing rod, like something you might use to signal an aircraft. Hovering in the sky is a glowing greenish blob.

2024/11/23

November 23, 2024
A glowing blue-green goldfish bowl precariously balanced on top of a black conical mountain peak. Inside is a black fish with large, diaphanous fins. It is night; the sky is filled with stars. A meteor streaks overhead.

2024/11/11

November 11, 2024
A dark, hooded figure stands on a rocky promontory in the darkest hour of the night, holding a glowing green lantern. The full moon hangs in the sky, casting a pale light on the wispy clouds surrounding it. Below the promontory, not depicted in the image but no less real or urgent, the dark hordes assemble to fight over whatever tawdry shards remain of a splintering world. You could save 15% by switching to Geico.

2024/11/08

November 8, 2024
A blue, starry evening. Under the night sky is a grassy hill with a cement cylinder—imagine a manhole—sticking out the top of it. The lid of the cylinder is blown back, and a beam of white light projects from the opening. Leaping from the opening is a dark, horned figure, its hour come round at last.

2024/11/03

November 3, 2024
A small shack at night, under a starry sky. The shack has a roof sloping down to the right, and a single door with no windows. On the door is what appears to be a warning sign, although what it's warning against isn't legible. There is a green glow under the door. Directly to the left of the shack is a giant test tube, taller than the shack, with a glowing greenish substance in it. Glowing green pipes connect the test tube to the shack. Rising from the test tube is a faint column of smoke.

2024/10/31

October 31, 2024
A dim, foggy, purple night. Placed in the middle of a meadow is an odd building: a small tower with one glowing, narrow window on the first floor and two tall, arched windows on the second floor. The windows glow green. The second floor of the building is slightly wider than the first. The roof of the building is tapered to a flat deck with a small railing around it. On the right side of the building is a small covered porch with a long staircase. Approaching out of the fog is a vast, lumbering figure with glowing white eyes. The figure appears to be, if not as tall as the building, definitely larger than anybody who lives in it. An enormous orange moon partially covered by clouds hangs in the sky.

2024/10/29

October 29, 2024
A skeletal figure wearing an old seaman's coat and a tricorn hat stands behind an old-style ship's steering wheel. The entire scene is illuminated in eerie green light. Above is a starry night sky crisscrossed with green lines. Meteors streak through the night. People who were online back when the floppy disk icon meant something might think this looks a little familiar.

2024/10/25

October 25, 2024
Four crows cluster in front of a film screen on which is projected a scene from a black and white horror film featuring a scarecrow. On screen, the scarecrow is menacing a crow. Offscreen, it is night. A thin crescent moon sits in the sky.

2024/10/21

October 21, 2024
An ominous figure standing alone in the dark. The figure is humanoid, but has a short tail and a horned head that's shaped roughly like that of a rhinoceros. (You just know there's going to be that one guy who's all "RHINOS DON'T HAVE HORNS IN THOSE LOCATIONS.") It stands in the greenish gloom of a starless, moonless night, in what appears to be a meadow. The only light is produced by a phone, which the figure is staring at.

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.

2024/10/13

October 13, 2024
A flat neon-pink grid that stretches off into the distance. Wireframe pink mountains sit on the horizon. In the foreground is a rocky mountainous area that looks dimensional, not flat or wireframe. The ridges are illuminated yellow. The sky is dark and starry, with a horizontal texture that suggests television static. In the sky, like a moon, is a yellow circle with another yellow circle inside it. More light pink circles are arranged in a geometric pattern in the sky. Hovering above the plane is a dark sphere with glowing red and yellow light reflecting off the side facing the moon.

2024/10/12

October 12, 2024
The surface of the moon, flat, with mountains in the background. Hovering above it in a bubble is a person floating in front of a laptop. The sky is filled with stars. The earth is visible in the top right.

2024/10/11

October 11, 2024
A hillside at dusk, the horizon tinted with eerie pink. A full orange moon hangs in the sky. Lurching over the hillside is a creature: a large sphere with an open, fanged mouth and no eyes. Fleeing before it are two small blue ghosts with frightened expressions. If you want to find out what happens next, you'll need to insert another quarter.

2024/10/09

October 9, 2024
A dark sky. Hovering in the sky is a large round yellow-green face with a wide, red-lipped mouth and a single blue eye staring down. The mouth is stretched in a smile that extends halfway around the face. The eye is a blue iris on a black background. The face has a slight greenish glow around it. Below, in a bright yellow field, a person stands, arms upraised. The field has a slight crimson glow to it. The back of the person is covered in a purple shadow.

2024/10/07

October 7, 2024
A blue starry night. Hovering in the sky is the  house-sized cover of a navy blue passport. On the cover, in dull gold, is the insignia of an unknown country, with strange lettering above the insignia. The cover is angled, as though it is a door that is opening, and white light blazes from behind it. Standing on the ground, reaching for it but too far away to access the door, is the small figure of a person.

2024/10/04

October 4, 2024
A small orange bird with blue-green plumes sits in the branches of a blue tree. The branches are highly complex. Hanging down from one of the lower branches is a yellow apple. The tree has equally intricate indigo roots. The entire drawing is set on a dark starry background. A round white moon hangs in the sky.

2024/09/30

September 30, 2024
A tall, dark house with several windows; too few for a structure like this. All except one are dimly lit. One window blazes with crimson light. The house is framed by an eerie green glow and set against the starry sky.

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