That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 01, 2021

Damn alarm cock!

“Hey, Ma, what’s for dinner?”

Marven thought he was the cock of the walk, but Hazel was not impressed.

“Yeah buddy, I’m a Rhode Island Red, but that don’t mean everything about me is small!”

I don’t wanna be cocky but I sense some fowl puns coming up!

This painting sold for a poultry sum.

Looks like the artist couldn’t quite pullet off.

bet she feels like flipping him the bird…

One of the first “paintbombs” (photobomb precursor) by a hen on a rooster’s portrait.

Rohlfs wanted to paint her, but she chickened out. She felt it was some cockamamie scam!

What he got for this painting certainly didn’t feather his nest; it left him feeling down.

But I’m cocksure you can manage it.

I think he’s cracked.

“I am not your chick!”

“Jeez Henrietta you look terrible this morning”

“So do you Jack.”

This painting is simply absurd/it’s unflattering to either bird/ the barnyard’s a mess/ the hen’s in distress/and the rooster is tragically blurred.

Well, Herr Rohlfs, I guess TECHNICALLY it’s a nude, but you should probably pluck it first..

I cannot believe my luck !/ A sweet spot I may have struck../ am I the first one/ who has written a pun/ including the suggestive term “pluck” ?

The hen looks happy with the results.

Cock’ll doodle do better than this artist.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get away from this painting.

Is that a Rat in the lower right corner, with an R on his sweatshirt?

“The sky is falling!”

Chanticleer invents the photobomb.

“You ever notice how the farmer always says You’re lucky to have been free-range just before he rings one of our necks? What’s that even mean???”

Suddenly, the rooster lost his cock a doodle do!

And thousands of relatively naive Priceless fan readers open a new tab to Google what cockblocked means…

After working on perspective (remember the Russians at table with one underneath?) the art teacher decided to emphasize form, shape and realism.

Rooster and Hen: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Rohlfs_Hahn_und_Huhn_1906.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rohlfs_christian.html 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/r/rohlfs/biograph.html 

https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/degenrate-art-the-fate-of-the-avant-garde-in-nazi-germany/Content?oid=878053 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/christian-rohlfs 

https://prabook.com/web/christian.rohlfs/2507391 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Christian_Rohlfs/9000129/Christian_Rohlfs.aspx 

https://www.kettererkunst.com/bio/ChristianRohlfs-1849-1938.php 

https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz106300.html 

https://books.google.com/books?id=iMtZCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT2#v=onepage&q&f=false 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate if necessary, and askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), 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/2015/09/18?comments=visible 

has the prior, which while my comment is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 19 hyperlinks remain inactive, ?&@#!#%&!, but the text may be informative.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2632 (January 31, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Nobody had the heart to tell the artist that he was forgetting to wear his glasses.

Chicken today – feathers tomorrow!