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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 15:17:05 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
In conversation about 5 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. A dark, dismally gray environment, like a cloudy day in early evening. Placed to the right of a small path is a tall Victorian-looking lamp post, the lamp unlit. Across the path, next to the lamp, is a person holding a long rod with a flaming end. The person is holding the rod towards the lamp, as though to light it. The flaming part of the rod is blazing white and yellow, emitting a trail of smoke that shift into iridescent greens and blues. The person also has a slightly iridescent tinge, reflecting both the yellow torchlight and a greenish tinge. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jun-2025 17:11:29 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

Thinking of Bill Atkinson tonight.
https://notes.art/2025/06/07/bill/
#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
In conversation about 13 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. A portrait of a man. The portrait is roughly divided into two styles: the left side is more painterly, while the right side is a bitmap composed of pixels. The man has slightly wild black hair, glasses, and a mustache, and is smiling. The overall composition is mixed-media on a gray background, with tinges of rainbow colors and colored pixels placed throughout the painting. The person depicted is Apple designer and engineer Bill Atkinson. The pixel part of this is based on an existing icon included in HyperCard; I'm unsure of who the artist is. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/646/274/248/878/441/original/f7ee48d2cdced184.png
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 13:55:40 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
In conversation about 17 days ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. A large, dark space. To the left is a small, glowing, yellow-green sphere. To the right, surrounding it, are a set of much larger planetlike spheres dully reflecting the light. While mostly dark, the light reflecting off them reveals that they are different colors: green, purple, pink. Most of the spheres are suspended by strings. One sphere is mounted on a rod coming up from the ground. One sphere, the smallest, is the head of a shadowy suit-wearing figure standing in the lower right corner. A greenish fog rises up from the ground. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/622/519/235/731/783/original/a16cc0c6a9bf7e08.png
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 15:05:38 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A person sits on the roof of a house at night. The sky is very clear and filled with stars. The house is in a large meadow, with the blurry suggestion of trees in the background. It has a window, but it's dark. The person is pointing a flashlight down towards the ground, squarely at the head of a large, unsettling figure lurching towards the house. The figure on the ground is hunched over, with unusually long arms; its posture suggests that it shuffles like a zombie. Low fog covers the ground. This is a predominantly blue painting with tinges of purple. It is signed "Chris Silverman".
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/543/507/605/295/412/original/e8f73e15c7598d3c.jpeg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 20:25:28 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. 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.”
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/244/130/576/832/957/original/c2eea013392577d8.jpeg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 04:18:49 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#100things - № 055
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1. A Penrose triangle on a deep blue background. The three sides of the bars that comprise the triangle are red, yellow, and lighter blue, with an intricate floral blue pattern inside. The design is signed "Chris Silverman".
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/236/003/347/680/463/original/0a81d673da4548ef.jpg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 15:58:29 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A blurry desert scene, like something from a dream. The sky is a bright yellow, with a blazing white blur of a sun in the top right. The landscape is flat and reddish brown, punctuated by mountains and a tall, towering promontory. Hovering on the sky, far sharper and clearer than anything else in the scene, is a shiny reddish saucer, the sunlight glinting off of it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/192/536/146/987/099/original/88ea8dcc487ebd0f.jpeg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 02:12:59 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. 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".
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/181/690/095/652/830/original/9bc3baa238928343.jpeg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 06:20:44 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

...so nobody noticed the #notesArt rainbow I've been working on, huh
Now I’m wondering what other long-game subliminal things I can sneak in here.
In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. A grid of twelve images, four across and three high. The images are from the past twelve days of #notesArt. While the scenes in the images vary, and are not related, the backgrounds are coordinated to form a rainbow when taken sequentially. Jerry Falwell thinks that there is secret devil stuff in here. He’s right.
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/100/106/492/665/038/original/57f0a65cca1aa61c.jpg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:26:14 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#100things - № 037
In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. A bright red warning symbol—a triangle with an exclamation point—is placed on a black background. The triangle is filled with an ornate black curving pattern. The design is signed "Chris Silverman".
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/090/483/690/076/202/original/a8343cb4ef8df5bd.jpg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:26:09 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. A small stone bridge crosses a river. It's night; the sky is a deep blue. Silhouetted against the sky is a cylindrical tower with a tall, conical roof. The bridge is connected to the tower, and a small doorway faces out onto the bridge. A slight haze hangs over the water. There is a dark, blurry suggestion of trees in the distance. The bridge and tower are dimly illuminated by a soft blue light that could be moonlight, but there is no visible moon. The only thing in the sky is a comet, glowing blue. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/091/805/245/049/597/original/5d22ffb17f9d7c44.jpeg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:25:44 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#100things - № 038
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1. Three lightning-bolt shapes, each formed from an arrangement of six yellow triangles. Aside from orientation, the triangles are identical, each with a complex, angular navy-blue pattern that suggests electricity. The design is on a dark navy-blue background and is signed "Chris Silverman".
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/095/067/071/846/580/original/97407cd19768c087.jpg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 14:13:46 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

"Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name."
—Robert Louis Stevenson
#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. A yellow sky with orange clouds; beneath it, a flat orange-brown plain. On the right of the painting is a tall, perfectly vertical wall with a small arched doorway in it. At the very top of the wall is a horizontal rod with a large bell hanging from it. Also hanging from it is a small brown sign, suspended just above the doorway, with the word "Goal" on it in orange letters. The wall is a red-brown color, with the front face reflecting orange. Running towards the doorway is the silhouette of a person. One level down, who knows how many to go. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/027/779/514/839/770/original/55c46fcc03216431.jpeg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:28:57 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

Eight years ago today, I began a precursor to #notesArt: a project called #100things. The idea was to make one artwork per day, 100 times.
It was a very different and yet weirdly similar era. The country was looking down the barrel of dysfunction that we barely knew the scope of; I'd run across @benbarry 's One Hundred Patterns (https://v1.benbarry.com/project/one-hundred-patterns) and liked the idea of a regular experimental project that would take my mind off things.
Today, I'm digging these out of the closet. Enjoy.
In conversation about 5 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  
  http://times.It/
2. An intricate orange hexagonal snowflake in the center of a white circle. The circle is placed on a lighter orange-yellow background.
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/799/740/096/357/494/original/61821270d6bd4936.png
3. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: v1.benbarry.com
  
  One Hundred Patterns
  
  from @benbarry
  
  While I did still design a lot during my last couple years working at Facebook, I spent the majority of my time managing and art directing. As rewarding as that work was, I'd begun to feel my skills as a maker start to atrophy. I decided to embark on this 100 days project as a daily ritual and creative exercise. Below is a selection of 25 of the patterns—to see all 100 please visit onehundredpatterns.tumblr.com
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 06:28:56 JST Chris Silverman 🌻
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@skry heh yeah, it gets interesting. I think one of the coolest things about doing something creative every day—doesn't matter what—is that the work inevitably evolves, and you can see it shift.
Sometimes you don't notice the direction until you go back over it later; sort of an archaeological record of whatever was going through your mind at the time.

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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 09:46:06 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. 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.
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/814/405/001/768/293/original/6b92278787082ca1.jpeg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 18:12:23 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. 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.
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/773/971/187/582/482/original/fb368f0f34ade977.jpeg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 04:47:30 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
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1. An abstract, impressionist painting with long, wavy brushstrokes. At the center of the painting is an elongated, slightly curved object painted in bright pink, yellow, and various shades of green. The right side of it is brightly illuminated, giving the impression that it is dimensional. It is surrounded by blue. The overall effect is of a multicolored bubble rising up through water.
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 18:24:41 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #artAdventCalendar
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1. A person stands in a gray, featureless space that appears to be a museum, phone upraised, aimed at a giant sculpture of a head. The head is large and misshapen, and appears to be carved from dark gray stone. It is easily the size of a small hut, towering over the person. It is mounted on a thin pole, which itself is planted in a large block of concrete. There's a small red barricade between the head and the person. The eye of the head is a glowing yellow window, in which is seen the silhouette of another person.
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/705/874/611/568/187/original/22cfb6e6fa10bfb4.jpeg
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Chris Silverman 🌻 (csilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 15:16:23 JST Chris Silverman 🌻

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #artAdventCalendar
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1. A bright orange vehicle with three legs. The vehicle looks like what you'd get if you put a helmet from a hazardous waste outfit on top of three human legs. The visor of the helmet is the windshield. Sitting behind the windshield is the shadowy silhouette of the driver. The vehicle has another smaller round window, revealing a small potted tree wrapped in white holiday lights. The vehicle is in a dark area, and has a single white headlight casting a beam of light. Sitting behind the rearmost leg of the vehicle is a black cat with glowing green eyes.
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/637/677/658/913/679/original/0123339b9d1b20f2.jpeg

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Designer, artist, iOS Notes limit pusher. I know the difference between a "font" and a "typeface", but I'm not obnoxious about it.A note: while I CW politics, and avoid offensive imagery entirely, I don't typically CW things like faces or food. My art is weird, often includes eyes/faces/masks, and can be (I'm told) somewhat eerie.

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