That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 16, 2021

The old artist realized it was time that he let his daughter start dating.

Shakespeare’s Shylock was more than a lender. / As a painter, he’d secretly render / full-length portraits of guys / that his daughter would prize, / and to whom she would gladly surrender. /// Daughter Jessica lusts after boys, / therefore Shylock developed some ploys. / With brush, canvas, and oils, / her libido he foils, / when she kisses the paintings, not goys.

Swipe left!

She craved aerosols but he only had oils and gave her the brush off.

All right, all right, I can take a hint. We’ll get you glasses!

She’d been told that watching paint dry/ could be fun – so she gave it a try. / and now dad is afraid/ that the subject portrayed/ is too low brow – or she is too high../// But wait!/ That’s a kiss she’s bestowed/ on the lips uniformed toad !/ Poor Daddy‘s aghast ! Has the die been cast ?/ Can this be the end of the road ?/// She was always the family jewel./ She was sent to finishing school !/ Will it all go to waste ? Will she marry in haste ?/ Could Fate really be so cruel ?/// And what of that nice Doctor, Herschel? Will he overcome forces inertial?/ Can you bear the suspense/ of this arrant nonsense ?/ Sorry, folks – here’s comes the commercial !

When Dad saw the way she was practicing her kissing, he knew that he’d better chaperone on the date.

Jessica gives away her romance with Lorenzo at just the wrong moment. “End this strife” yeah right, Jess—it’s only just begun.

How damsels kissed 2 dimensional celeb crushes before Tigerbeat!

Stuck to the canvas….

Hey! No touching the merchandise!

She dreamed one day she would marry a prints.

Lizzie will you finally admit that you need glasses?

Ish and Sol….no one can match you today!

She’s practicing for 24 hour kissing contest

Charles is wondering if naming his daughter Galatea was a mistake.

Gloria displays her magnetic personality by attracting the iron screw eyes on the back of the painting.

Emily hoped the Pygmalion effect would work on this painting.

Papa, whatever shall I do? James has got stuck in the looking glass! Well, Alice, that is what comes of taking your little friends with you on your odd journeys.

“You’re telling me that this is what you really look like but that you got the incantation backwards, Dorian? "

On further inspection I notice you painted a pimple on my husband’s nose?

Why is the frame tilted like that? Did dad make it so that his daughter could more easily kiss the painting?

She’d have to wait a century to sext him.

Father came home unexpectedly early one day, and caught her at….. well, whatever it is.

Having a staring contest with a portrait is good practice.

Well, that’s my new thing for today. Didn’t know there was such a thing as “huff paint”

“For Heaven’s sake, Edith, at least have some standards! He’s just a corporal!”

Hmmmm Hmmmm….I just love fresh oil paint.

He caught her when she thought she was alone/ She said she was admiring skin tone/He knew the real reason/ she was feeling in season/ He thinned his paints with AXE cologne.

“No, ma’am. You don’t do a self-portrait by pressing your face in wet paint.”

Darling husband, you’ve missed adding the little mole that he has on his nose right next to his eye. It can be seen only very close up.

The artist’s studio: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Napier_Kennedy_-_The_artist%27s_studio.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/2021/11/masterpiece-2827.html 

I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

Funny toon!

Actually, she just ran out of lipstick.

Hey lady! You kiss it, you buy it!

It all started as a miscontruement of ‘face paint’ to mean using one’s face to paint as opposed to the product, ending with a classic ‘face palm’ situation.

It was an amazing feet and she nose what she’s doing.

However, at the time this is being painted, the paint adjacent her nose has dried, locking the portrait onto Rachel’s face. Her attempts to escape merely drew the canvas from the easel.

Her larcenous roommate, Sandra Unshaven, is about to use Rachel’s dilemma to steal the ping pong paddles above the door.

The portrait is next to an open interior door. There is another interior door immediately behind the man. This must have been painted in the Tudor period.

Sightseeing, it ain’t for the faint.

The unprepared tourists are quaint.

“I can see Paris!”

cried Kamala Harris,

before getting an Eiffel of paint.

The gypsies Dad hired would water

down house paint when they hadn’t oughta.

The paint washed away

which is mor’en I can say

of the ‘date’ they had with his daughter.

lucinda, was looking to see what daddy had painted, the picture of her husband to be,too bad she had horrible Eyesite and thought it was a horse.

Well,… he is tall, dark and handsome…"