That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 21, 2021

“Listen, Emperor, do I walk into your palace and tell you how to do your job?”

“Screw it, lets just CG the rest.”

You over there kneeling with the mirror… tilt it down lower. That backlighting has to be just right.

And remember, this is for posterity. It has to be an accurate depiction, so that people will know what sort of king I was.

Painting with an audience is always tough. It’s worse when ‘the audience’ can have your head taken off if you make his complexion wrong.

It’s the plague of the person who paints/ (one of painting’s cruelest restraints !)/ ’tis the length of the wall../ who can cover it all ?/ One constantly runs out of Saints…

Is this a repeat? It looks familiar! If not a repeat I would comment… “Come down Tensley, you don’t need a mask anymore!”

Nostradamus attempts to explain what sports bars with Hi-def TV will look like.

Painter trying to sell the king on his rough draft (and hoping he doesn’t fire him and hire a hack to paint-by-numbers his pencil sketch)

In the trial of this suspect, each juror, / (and the sketch artist, too, Albrecht Durer,) / knew this unnamed “civilian” / was the Kaiser, Max’milian, / who’d never be judged a procurer.

“Sad news, Your Majesty. I’m afraid I can’t complete the painting; the numbers 64, 66 and 79 are missing.”

“Admittedly, it’s high quality graffiti, but it’s still illegal. Forty lashes at high noon, or you can come home with me and have a meal prepared by my wife. I’d take the lashing if I were you.”

Thisa’ isa’ gonna be real esay. Nobody isa’ gonna no difference. Put ona’ chef hat and justa’ say “Thisa’ sum spicey meatball”. Poop for brains will think we invaded Italy.

I demand you erase this cartoon. / It lampoons me as old Pantaloon, / (a buffoon picayune,) / and you further impugn / how I speak with that ribald balloon.

No no, the composition is all wrong. I don’t care how they really ARE, I just want the horses’ heads to LOOK larger than the women’s.

Product placement in the comics now?

He picked up a can of Sherwin Williams paint and shouted “Cover the Earth!” as he poured it on the floor.

“Hi, you don’t know me, but I’m here to tell you about an exciting new…..”

The artist thinking, " How many times do I have to explain to this idiot that this mural is all about the Queen and her ladies on horseback, not this horse’s ass of a Prime Minister! "

“PAINTER:* This is how Michelangelo done it. First he painted a wall, then the Pope prayed real hard and the wall became the ceiling. Are you saying you don’t have as much faith as the Pope, Martin?

“And if you don’t get it right this time, I’ll tell the guy with the halberd to ‘Cut!’”

“Young Schroedinger here says he has a theory about the natural world. Has anyone seen the royal cat?”

Annnnnd … abracadabra! The rabbit is gone!

“Did you know there is a dead cat in this box?” “Well, I know now!!!!!”

https://www.gocomics.com/help/comment_policy

(hadn’t seen that before last Saturday; changed my mind a bit regarding what I said in my 6/18 reply), says comments that include a

(6) link off-site

are no longer allowed (please don’t confuse that with a hyperlink – a URL is most definitely a link in this context), and that has caused me to change a few things. Though technically still in violation, I hope pointing to Wikimedia Commons is OK.

Albrecht Dürer is visited by Emperor Maximilian at work: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilhelm_Koller_Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_wird_von_Kaiser_Maximilian_bei_der_Arbeit_besucht.jpg 

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

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

https://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/06/masterpiece-2731.html 

I have added a comment there pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2021/06/11?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there pointed to the same artist info URLs as does the one now at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry).

“Bad boy! You know drawing on the walls is wrong! Go to the corner for a time out right now!”

Keep painting, my friends.

Please forgive this abrupt interruption, / for I know you abhor all disruption, / but my green wooden chest / holds these deeds which attest / that you profit from crime and corruption.

Well, there’s one thing from my childhood that’s still around… Glidden Paint

What I see thus far leaves me unmoved. / This is not the design I approved. / The sketch held up here shows / I’ve a cute button nose. / You’re in peril unless it’s improved.

Before television, the hottest ticket in town was watching a muralist.

general Thor giving talk re invasion of country next to his, boy in foreground is his “aid de camp”.

Who removed my wine goblet by painting over it! Paint it back in! Paint it back in!

Ah, those were the days. When watching paint dry was a spectator event.

The year was 1870 and great strides were being made in large screen TVs. :>)

The Most Interesting Painter In The World…

With this paint by number scheme we can make a fortune I tell you!

Now class please notice, my brush strokes are not side to side but rather up and down, up and down…it makes a difference.