That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 11, 2021

What the artist’s wife got after she caught him with one of his models.

“Welcome to my studio. Could you lend me a hand?”

No matter how tempted you might be, do not, I repeat do NOT pat Miss Emily on the derriere.

It’s always so nice when Mr. Lorre crawls over to visit.

https://youtu.be/x73kkuy45KA

She was the star soloist at a Met Gala. At the end of her aria, the M. C., applauding enthusiastically, said, “Give the lady a big hand!” So they did!

Whoever that model was for the statue on the table, he was trying to take his shoes off before the sculptor started.

God reached out His fingers to touch Adam and enliven him, and when Adam reached his hand to God, God took it. He was thinking that He would display it on a future Palm Sunday! Miss Watkins rejoiced and purchased the appendage when she found it in a second hand shop.

I wanted to make a hand joke but you all beat me to it! I guess I am not ahead of the crowd this time, though I could get a head under the table.she tried to hide it but she is busted!

You’ve got to hand it to her…she knows a Thing or two about collecting.

“Why yes, the hand does take batteries and has three settings. Isn’t modern technology wonderful! Who needs men!”

Would you like to take a look at my bust? No, the one under the table.

“Oh yes, please! do that Thing that drives me wild!”

The thief cunningly hid himself behind the drapes to steal her precious art collection

Thing had a brother named Thong. Guess where Thong is. Look at the smile on her face.

you can tell that she was just waiting for somebody to give her a hand…

The hand writing on the wall….

Miss Felicity keeps a collection/ which she hopes will avoid detection/ a collection of parts- / such as hands, heads, and hearts/ of the victims of her vivisection.

What Glinda means when she asks you to come up so she can show you her artwork.

This wasn’t quite what she’d planned/(her vision was rather grand)/ her little museum/ (now her mausoleum)/ has simply got out of hand..

She’s finding it all rather draining/ – the customers all are complaining/ she’s spending a pile/ and the odor is vile/ but the hardest part is explaining.

The customer may have to lurch forward to find that thing.

So – “The Artist’s Wife in his Studio”. Going through the folios. The 18th century equivalent of going through his phone.

Does this dress make my butt look big?

poor Thing

Yeah dear, your butt looks massive in that dress.

The reason Edward Scissorhands didn’t get his real hands? Looters like Jane.

You want something kinky? let me get the head under the table.

Mrs. Boilly was always happy to lend a hand to any artist.

My kind of women.

Beware of the Thing

Yes, I have a hand in this enterprise.

One of the better ones. And the hand puns!

Felicity took Lips that touch wine will never touch mine to the next level when Herbert came in carrying a bottle of Scotch one sad day:

“A hand that touches hooch will never touch my cooch, Herbert” CHOP

“Harold, is statue?”

“Yes, Maude, it’s me,” Harold replied off-handedly.

The Artist’s Wife in His Studio: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis-L%C3%A9opold_Boilly_-_The_Artist%27s_Wife_in_His_Studio.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has strip coloration image.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/boilly_louis-leopold.html 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/boilly2.htm 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/b/boilly/biograph.html 

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3264/louis-leopold-boilly-french-1761-1845/ 

https://www.kimbellart.org/collection/ap-199001 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Louis_Leopold_Boilly/9000885/Louis_Leopold_Boilly.aspx 

https://prabook.com/web/louis.boilly/2168082 

https://mr-expert.com/en/artwork-quotes/louis-leopold-boilly-price/ 

https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.975.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, 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, 7 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2021/05/10?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2704 (May 10, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“And just who are you sending these ‘pix’ to, husband?”

The Artist’s Wife in His Studio … Caught in the act – the nosey little b*tch!

The Artist’s Wife in His Studio… cleaning out all the garbage

Lulu’s boyfriend wants to hold her hand and she came prepared, she also has other body parts if he wants more.

“Thing, you’re a handful!” :)

The hand, writhing on the wall…

Did I just miss it, or did nobody say anything about the violin hanging from the chair???

Hey, that’s one of mine. Why’s your name on it?