That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 28, 2023

Julius became an artist, hoping he would paint nude models. Instead, he got to paint his sister painting flowers.

/// Artist Agnes, shown here, was another

Paulson painter, like Julius, her brother.

At her easel she sits,

chewing brushes to bits;

from the smell of her paints she may smother.

You might think that stick is just to steady Alice’s hand, but you’ll soon find yourself at the pointy end of it if you were to interupt her.

The actual Whistler’s Mother

Did she paint from memory or have a standin model? and why bite the brushes?

No Agnes, that’s not how you brush your teeth.

Whistler’s Mother on the other side of the canvas.

This made me snort out loud. Thanks, Steve.

J. Paulsen’s more talented sister/

Was so cute that he couldn’t resist her/

But rather than lay her/

He preferred to portray her/

To his credit, he ain’t even kissed her!

“Dear Marion, how are you? I’m starting my painting class…..”

“Is that number a 9 or a 7?”

Lisa Gherardini snuck in each night to touch up her portrait. “He’s an ok artist,” she felt, “but this da Vinci fellow could use a little more mystery in his work.”

Using grade #1 axel grease Clarice disguised her unsightly mustache as a paint brush.

She: Sit still Alfonso and control that thing……painting a nude is difficult!

Cecilia Giménez, seen here “restoring” the Mona Lisa. “I can’t believe that doofus forgot to include her eyebrows!”

Agnes may seem prim and proper, but once the glasses come off and the hair comes down, she goes nuts with the body paint.

Agnes needs to get laid!

" Turner, Turner? …I swear that man would get nothing done if it weren’t for me! "

The Painter Agnes Paulsen, the Artist’s Sister, at her Easel: 

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"File:Julius Paulsen, Malerinden Agnes Paulsen, kunstnerens søster, ved staffeliet, 1886, KMS3763, Statens Museum for Kunst.jpg" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first File: found, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this wide A4 paper size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3156 (June 28, 2023) 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 (awaiting Mr.Melcher’s approval) pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

“Gsh, t s-ms t go s mch bttr whn I use my hnd nstd of my mff”

“I’ll paint a portrait of you.”

“No. I’ll do a painting of you.”

“Sigh”

“Sigh”

“Okay. We’ll both paint each other.”

“The Painter Agnes Paulsen, the Artist’s Sister, at her Easel,” 1886

When you can’t decide if you are finished with the first color on the first brush…

lucy, having a frisky subject, had to put a barrier in her mouth to deter his advances.