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2026/05/04

May 4, 2026
A comet, or some immeasurable celestial object, blazes down through the dark clouds towards a mountain range. It occupies nearly the entire sky: a glowing green flash trailing rivulets of greenish blue flame. The fringes are indigo. The mountain range reflects this color scheme: again, a mix of bright green and violet. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/05/03

May 3, 2026
A person pilots an unusual delivery vehicle through the dark. The vehicle is an iridescent green and looks like a space helmet mounted on four legs. Each leg has an orange cowboy boot on it. The windshield of the vehicle is purple, and the driver is silhouetted behind it. On the side of the vehicle is a small round hatch, perhaps a fuel port, and a logo of a gift with a curved arrow under it. The vehicle has two antennae with glowing white lights on them, and a single round headlight that casts an intense white-green beam. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/05/02

May 2, 2026
A reddish meadow under a fiery orange-yellow sky. Standing in the middle of the meadow is a doorway that appears to be a portal. Through the doorway is an entirely different world; one with a blue sky and white clouds. The doorway casts a yellow glow across the red grass, and is made of orange brick. Attached to the top of it is a round white sign with a black letter T: the logo for the Boston subway system. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/05/01

May 1, 2026
A dark scene: a sky heavy with dull, greenish clouds. Looming up against the clouds are oddly shaped industrial structures: irregular, precarious-looking arrangements of blocks and pipes. They have a few small glowing greenish windows, white lights, and smoking chimneys. In the foreground is a dock jutting out over foggy water. The dock is illuminated by a single greenish street light. Racing towards the street light is a person. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/30

April 30, 2026
A person wearing a red suit and tie stands in a bright yellow space. The shadowy areas are deep blue, and the person casts a long blue shadow, as though they are in bright sunlight. The suit looks strangely smooth and simple, as though the person is a toy. The person does not have a head; hovering above their empty neck is a sphere with a smiley-face embossed onto it. The face is attached to a string that the person is holding, like a balloon.  The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/29

April 29, 2026
A conical tent sits on a vast, icy expanse under a deep blue night sky. Green auroral flames cover the sky, fading to stars. The tent glows red, and the light from the inside reveals the silhouette of someone sitting inside the tent. A few feet outside the tent is the glow of a lingering fire. The ground is blue. This painting is rendered in primary colors: red, yellow, green, blue, and black. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/28

April 28, 2026
A street that is both dark and lit up, pulsing with heat. The background is a mix of black and red. On the right side of the painting is a two-story building. A figure slumps in an arched doorway, staring at the blazing green light from a phone. Above, leaning out of a second story, arched window, is a devil figure with horns, lit up green by the neon sign fixed to the left side of the building. The sign says "open" in large, blazing, greenish-white neon letters. The neon light is smeared across the night. In the background, a crowd of shadowy figures approaches. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/27

April 27, 2026
A conical chunk of rock with grass and a tree growing on top of it hovers in the air, anchored to the ground by a thin wire. It looks as though part of a mountain has simply been yanked out of the ground and is now floating like a balloon. On the side of the rock, though, are oddities: the outline of a door, missing tiles. On the underside of the rock is an open hatchway, revealing tubes and wires. A workmen wearing overalls and an orange helmet is poking around in there with tools. An orange toolbox sits on the ground. The scene is set against a blue background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/26

April 26, 2026
A river winds through a heavily wooded landscape. On the right side of the river are rocky cliffs. In the top right of the sky is a white moon. This is a predominantly blue painting, signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/25

April 25, 2026
A dark, rocky place. Everything is gray. A post is planted on a rocky hill. Sticking out of the right side of the post is a long branch, on which is sitting a figure wearing a dark, shiny, full-body suit. Where the figure's face would be is a glowing green faceplate casting a beam of greenish light. The figure has three green buttons on its chest. In the background is the dim outline of another rocky ridge. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/24

April 24, 2026
A retro television—one of those boxy things with the dials on the side—hovers in the glare of a single white spotlight. The surrounding area is dark. The TV is maybe a foot above the ground and casts a blurry shadow. The screen shows nothing but colored static. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/23

April 23, 2026
A platform in a train station. The platform is held up by a lattice of girders, and more beams hang above it. A long fluorescent light hangs above the platform. Several small birds sit among the beams. The platform is empty except for a cat. The sky is a gold yellow. In the distance is the skyline of a city, with the setting sun blazing white between two skyscrapers. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman."

2026/04/22

April 22, 2026
A dark blue background. Hovering above is a large, orange space invader: one of those blocky pixel monsters from the classic arcade game. It is dropping neon green blocks. Below it, running away from the blocks, is a person, not pixelated, carrying a black umbrella. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/21

April 21, 2026
A glowing, translucent, indigo-green blob that resembles a Pac-Man ghost hovers in a dark space. The blob has two round eyes and a fixed smile, like the face of a toy. Above the blob is a glowing blue-green halo from which fog is rising. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/20

April 20, 2026
A surreal landscape: a mountainous desert under a striking purple sky. Streaks of heavy clouds fade into a starry night sky. Hovering at various locations on the desert are glowing green bubbles. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/19

April 19, 2026
A fortified castle tower—really just a stone cylinder—stands at the top of a very craggy, very sharp hill overlooking the ocean. The sky is a pale greenish color. The tower has two slitlike windows and an open, arched door, and is crumbling at the top. The only signs of life are the two birds flying about the top of it, and the UFO hovering in the sky to its right, glinting in the sun. On the underside of the UFO is a circular opening that is glowing white. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/18

April 18, 2026
A person sits at a small table on the edge of a rocky cliff. The front of the cliff face is illuminated reddish, and the sky is pink on the horizon. Across from the person, on the other end of the table, is a puppet: a white ghost, manipulated by some very large, offscreen entity. The person and the ghost are playing chess. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/17

April 17, 2026
An eerie scene: a blurry gray landscape with a crooked road; a stormy sky filled with heavy fluorescent green clouds; and a greenish-white lighting bolt jumping from one side of the sky to the other. Balanced on the lightning bolt is a tightrope walker, walking along the lightning, holding a long balancing pole. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/16

April 16, 2026
A knight in armor, carrying a shield and sword, stands on the edge of a greenish brown, perfectly rectangular cliff. The shield is red, with a gold cross on it. Across from the cliff, hovering in the air, are 10 gold coins, arranged in two perfectly parallel columns. The overall scene suggests a classic video game such as Mario. Below, in the distance, are some purple mountains, and there are a few white clouds in the otherwise blue sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/15

April 15, 2026
A tall figure wearing a suit and a top hat stands on top of a craggy mountain on a dark, cloudy night. The figure is holding a lantern that illuminates the rock with an eerie green light. In the distance is the blurry outline of another mountain. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/14

April 14, 2026
A person in a dull blue space. Something not so good is on their minds; a large, ominous thought balloon, like that out of a comic strip, hovers above them. The balloon is various shades of purple, yellow, and green, and is so heavy that it's dripping, pooling like paint on the ground. The person is standing in a puddle of thought-balloon liquid, lifting their leg in horror as viscous purple strings of whatever this is extend from their shoe to the ground. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/13

April 13, 2026
A large orange robot, with an iridescent greenish sheen to it, stands in a dark space. Its head is placed on a green pedestal in front of it. The head is plugged into a wall outlet, and the eye displays a green "charging" lightning bolt icon. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/12

April 12, 2026
A dark figure pushes a cart through a bright green meadow under a mostly clear, blue sky. In the cart is a large, rusty, metal cube with a white question mark roughly spray-painted on one side. The cube looks like those question boxes in Nintendo games. There are a few colorful wildflowers dotting the meadow, and a wispy cloud or two in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/11

April 11, 2026
A dark stone bridge over a swampy brook in the middle of nowhere. The sky is an eerie yellow-green. Hanging beneath the bridge is a batlike figure wearing a coat and a top hat. The figure has glowing green eyes. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/10

April 10, 2026
A person seen in profile. Or something that resembles a person, anyway: perfectly smooth head; hard, straight nose; unsettling smile; and glowing green round spectacles. The person is purple, and looks they are made from metal. The outlines of a few rectangular panels are visible. In addition to the bright blue sky around them, they are slightly illuminated from the rear by a reddish light. Perched on top of their head is a white bird, tiny by comparison, with a few more birds in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/09

April 9, 2026
A signpost standing at a crossroads in a barren place, under a pink and purple sky. It has two signs: "Accept", pointing right, and "Decline", pointing left. In the distance is a treeline. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/08

April 8, 2026
A thin, rickety bridge extends through a raging red and yellow inferno. Marching along the bridge is an eerie procession, led by a person wearing a tall top hat. The person is blowing a trumpet. Behind them, a hulking figure with a windup key sticking out of its back thumps a drum with a red star on it, hung around its neck. In the rear is a small, hunched figure with horns and a tail, playing a saxophone. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/07

April 7, 2026
A tall, narrow tower with a pointed roof sits on a snowy mountain peak under a blue evening sky. The tower is yellow, with a small red door and steps leading down the mountain away from the door. At the top of the tower is a round, dark, shiny window that looks very much like a camera lens. Several antennae stick up from the roof of the house. In the background is the blurry suggestion of trees or other mountains. A white crescent moon sits in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/06

April 6, 2026
A view out the window of a spaceship. The window is tall, with rounded sides, and surrounded by a heavy metal frame. The gray wall of the spaceship, with various beams and bolts, is visible beyond the frame. Out the window is the starry black of space, with a bright white-gray moon in the center. We're pretty close to the moon. The surface shadows are sharp and visible. Clamped to the upper frame of the window is a small consumer GPS unit, the kind you'd have in your car, displaying the words "keep right" in white lettering, along with "50 thousand km". The GPS displays the usual pink route and arrows indicating how to get to the moon. In the lower left of the screen is a small round icon indicating that the local speed limit is 90km/h. Fortunately there are no cops in space, yet. Good luck out there, Artemis crew. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/05

April 5, 2026
A rocky mountainous landscape under a desert sky. On the left is a dark, drab, rocky face with a smaller, round rock placed against it. Climbing up towards the round rock are two figures wearing robes. One of them is pointing to the rock, on which is hung a white sign that says "Do not disturb." The round white sun sits high in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". Happy Easter.

2026/04/04

April 4, 2026
A large round yellow smiley face floats through an eerie woods on a dark night. The face is glowing and slightly translucent. It casts a yellowish-green light on the trees around it. The tree trunks are dark indigo and green, looming out of the shadows. The smiley face casts an iridescent, yellowish-green glow on the cracked ground as well. To the left, a figure is pursuing the face. The figure is illuminated bright yellow by the face, and it and the trunks around it are slightly lit from another bluish light source off screen. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/03

April 3, 2026
An otherworldly scene: a winding, rocky path carved out of rock, surrounded on both sides by indeterminate foliage. This is a mostly dark indigo scene with greenish fog rising ahead of the path. Looming up from the fog is a huge rocky pillar with a glowing white light at the top. Fog hangs in the air. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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