That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 13, 2022

Whistler’s Mother’s side piece.

/// Jean Daiwaille’s self-portrait here shows

that he wasn’t ashamed of his nose,

or his disheveled hair,

or his sad beagle stare.

For the rest, I’ll continue in prose:

(My first reaction is that this painting looks very much like the actor Jack MacGowran made-up to play Professor Ambrosius in Roman Polanski’s “The Fearless Vampire Killers.”)

They say owners and their pets look like each other. I’m guessing this guy has a cocker spaniel.

My hemorrhoids are killing me!

Roscoe went overboard with no shave November!

If Einstein had taken up psychedelics instead of physics.

Portrait of the famous artist Le Spaniel.

Self portrait, 1850

Founder of the famous art movement “Doggy Stijl”.

Jean Augustine D. painted himself as he pawsed half-way through his “Shaggy Dog” transformation. Any further along, and his pallet would have had only gray shades.

No soup for you, Daiwaille!

can no longer fart with confidence.

The new shampoo and conditioner did NOT add volume.

The fur that festoons his face/

Belongs in a different place/

Perhaps it’s a swatch/

That fled from his crotch/

To a climate more to its taste..///

Whoever this fellow is/

(It’s probably none of my biz)/

Whatever his shtick/

He’ll not find a chick/

With that pitiful mustache of his/

Despite his expression satanic/

We have simply no reason to panic/

No philosopher he/

He adopted plan B/

He’s a prosperous auto mechanic.

(Actually, it’s a self-Portrait)

His happiness, sadly. depends/

Not upon the kindness of friends/

But upon his shampoo/

Which has failed to undo/

A terrible case of split ends..)///

His expression is suitably grim/

For the problem that’s plaguing him:/

He spent all of his loot/

On that suave satin suit/

And he hasn’t the price of a trim.

Maybe, just maybe I should consider redoing my dating profile photo

This artist has a face that only a mother could love … and then, only on payday!

“What, I am smiling.”

That’s actually Cornelius Sweetbottom, inventor of the fist bump. Surprised Steve got that one wrong.

The fact that John was the life of the party says a lot about the university’s mathematician party.

He may look like a stick in the mud, but on karaoke night Norbert brings down the house with “Let’s Spend The Night Together”.

Used to play bass in a band that almost made it big.

Hey dude! Fist bump!

Gary Oldman’s (The Fifth Element) grandfather.

The world’s most depressed werewolf.

That concept of manscaping was still many years off.

Cautionary portrait of a mycologist who got too close to his work.

I was the original model for Dick Tracy’s character B.O. Plenty but was told I was tohandsome! So I became a male stripper but was I was to short. And so here I amin all my glory as a nobody!

Typical Rock Star, age 38 by Jean Daiwaille

The portrait of Einstein’s wife proves that couples begin to resemble each other.

“I can feel it … I think a storm’s a brewin’”

Van de Graaff in the early stages of his experimentation.

Self-portrait: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Jean Augustin Daiwaille" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Zelfportret, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (best viewed using Google Chrome which can automatically translate most webpages as necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3043 (December 13, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

No, you can’t have any—it’s not good for you, so stop begging!

Einstein’s younger brother, got messed up on radium.

Jean, why is your head shrinking?

Surrealist artist Salvador Doggi, a Chihuahua, was one of the villains in the 1980’s superhero/funny animal Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew.

ian anderson, sans flute…

For Wednesday:

There once was a boxer named Jack/

Who was famed for his fearsome attack/

The man was a pistol/

But his jaw was of crystal/

So he ended up flat on his back…

Hhis physique was your absurdly immense/

poor Jackie was terribly dense dense/

if you look at his ear/

is soon becomes clear/

that he just could not master defense./

The IPhone has a mind of its own!