That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 05, 2021

Susan realized she should have taken pottery.

Clara didn’t really care about the full figure of the drawing. It was a tiny detail she was focused on.

Her new iPad had taken an excellent photo of the statue she wanted to sell, but she can’t post it until she figures out which app to use to blur the prominent genitals.

Model trying to be meta by painting the artist while he paints her.

The origin of the selfie…

Livy’s thoughts as she studied her sketch: / Now I need a large canvas to stretch. / I shall paint him in oils, / and then, after my toils, / when I sell it, how much might it fetch? /// For her model, a statue of Jove / on a pedestal, but Livy strove / to, some humor, evoke / with a caption — a joke. / Nope. My limericks are no treasure trove.

Jupiter is easy to draw – Saturn is a bit more difficult.

Looking at the revealing self portrait her boy friend sent.

Livia, admiring her curves

“I’ll call it “Urine Sample’.”

Swipe left.

Lizzie draws a lovely urn, and daydreams about the day she will put her husband in one.

next time i just get the paint by numbers set…

She had no talent. She couldn’t draw water from an overflowing well.

The IPad, intransigent beast/ when subjected to even the least/ pressure, creates an error./ The damned thing’s a terror../ she’s lucky she’s still ancient Greeced.

But after she painted the wretch/ the sitter commenced to kvetch/ though she thinks he’ll see clearer/ when revealed by the mirror/ which she has just sent him to fetch..

I keep imagining him without clothes?

“It was supposed to be a Turtle.”

Susan sighed. “I just don’t get this comic, can some one explain?”

Well, that beats the shock of him looking like Uranus…

“I really drew his d**k too big…”

Woman making sketches for the milliner who will create for her the perfect Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat from her chair-throw.

Ehh! I always lose concentration midway on these things.

Olivia realized that sketching a nude was much harder than she thought. Her imagination seemed to run wild when it came to certain parts of the anatomy.

She decided she’d better stick to copying those drawings on the back of matchbook cover ads for art school.

An Amateur: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_William_Godward_An_Amateur_1915.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

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

http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/08/masterpiece-2764.html 

I have added a comment there (already approved by Mr. Melcher) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 8 works by this artist have been used here (6 times, including 4 works in the first strip, which was later repeated). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2016/12/13?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there didn’t point to any artist info URLs).

Sitting with the sun-bleached side of her hair facing the wall, she examined her sketch again, trying to picture what animal pelt would look even better than leopard in her latest design for “Fashions by DeVil.”

Chloe studied the instructions for the latest IKEA product. She’d never seen one in real life, so she was surprised by some of the attachments.

She had no frame of reference to draw in the naughty bits.

Her untutored depiction of Zeus/ would improve if she chose to reduce/ the details she attempted/ but should have exempted/ from her efforts to reproduce.

Jupiter? Neptune is the Roman god of the waters.

Not bad … not bad. Now if I make 100 more sort of like this; I believe I can make a flip book of him waving!

It was a start to her “Finish the drawing” coloring book.

Octavia had completed enough of the connect-the-dots drawing to see that it was of Jupiter, but she couldn’t finish it until she located the dot which connected to “XCIV.”