That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 05, 2020

Getting a picture ID was a real pain before the camera was invented.

“I say Mark, you sure can paint a table.”

When Gretchen had agreed to allow the young gentleman to paint in her kitchen, she had’t known how long it would be – she had to get dinner started.

“Are you one of them there Impressionists, or just near-sighted?”

The artist demonstrating the image processing algorithm that lets him convert the image of a clothed woman into a nude. A man well ahead of his time!

You’re right. It’s much easier and cheaper to do color paintings in the dark.

All this painting in the shadows—not as easel as it might seem! And if you guys don’t stop huffing my air, I’ll brush you all off!

Gretchen’s father thought it was funny to bump the artist’s elbow every now and then.

“Can you give my wife big boobs?… bigger yeah, like that.”

Tim and Liz were pleased as punch — their little Susie all 18 years old and getting her senior picture taken.

“I call it Painting of a Smaller Painting on the Wall.”

His next painting is called Hanging Chad.

What might the occasion be/ that a poor country girl such as she/ is being portrayed? / Her expression (dismayed)/ suggests that she’s hoping to flee… But who is this back in the gloom/ that engulfs the bulk of the room?/ Might a wedding await/ – one that seals her fate?/ Is that chubby old fellow her groom?

In those days, some people found different ways to amuse themselves when waiting for the stagecoach.

“Hey Moe, you’re a regular Van Gogh. Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck”

“Yeah, he oughta GOGH take some lessons”

“Why I oughta…SPREAD OUT, you’re crowdin’ me”

When the camera broke at the DMV, getting a new license took even longer than before.

Police artist doing a mug shot.

Bravo…..

She had always suspected she didn’t belong. Now she was sure of it, since she wasn’t allowed to be in the family portrait.

The portrait painter in the country: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AEL_Der_Portraetmaler_auf_dem_Lande.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/egger-lienz_albin.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=4257 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/albin-egger-lienz 

https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Albin.Egger-Lienz 

http://www.richardrhoda.com/index_Albin_Egger_Lienz.htm 

http://www.albin-eggerlienz.info/en/biography 

http://www.museum-schlossbruck.at/albin-egger-lienz/allgemein.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (the last in German; again, Chrome can automatically translate), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/08/14?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs, the second and sixth of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2572 (November 4, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

P.S. For anyone interested, I’ve made changes to yesterday’s title URL, perhaps since you’ve seen it, including the painting’s English title.

the doctor is showing the virgin men by drawing what is underneath the women’s garments,because it is doubtful they will find out on their own.

Did a painter paint the guy who was painting the painter?

Would you hurry up! I need to put the fruit back in the basket you put on her head!

I am just sitting here waiting, he promised me the frivolity of sex.