That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 24, 2024

How a model lost a day’s pay.

/// While Raimundo shows her how to pose,

she trades places and to his spot goes.

She picks up a paint brush.

He objects; she says “Hush…

I can draw just as well as you pros.”

While the artist is elsewhere engaged/

A small revolution’s been staged:/

And when he gets back/

From preparing his snack/

He will probably be enraged.

After her ‘touch ups’ the painting later sold for millions; and she never got any credit.

Monique decided to add a personal touch to her portrait!

This one is definitely entertaining…

The painter was from a family of painters

OK Melcher, I gotta admit, that’s hard to top.

This looks like Fun! can I try?

Ray’s usual model was Aline Masson,

Who usually posed with all her clothes on.

Because if the painter seemed to get frisky,

Her Doorman father made it risky

For Raimundo to keep straight his nose on.

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Aline was a well-known coquette

A sense of humor she had, and yet —

She sometimes went a little too far

And once did comically mar

A work on which the paint was still wet.

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Raimundo was rather peeved and annoyed

And reworked the canvas to try to avoid

Missing the delivery deadline

That was now set back by Aline

On the painting she’d partly destroyed.

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But after some frantic perspiration

Ray had the clever inspiration

To eschew unpleasant quibble,

To incorporate the childish scribble

Into a funny genre situation.

Artist took some liberties with her hair apparently.

Where is his hand? Is she propositioning him?

Let’s see what you look like with a mustache.

“Kilroy was here”

Grandma Moses – the early years.

Next, I’ll show you how to paint a nude. Can someone please help me out of this dress?

“I haven’t heard that joke, Raimundo. Tell me, what is the difference between a palate cleanser and a palette cleanser?”

Never trust her when she says, “Let me try; I took a university art class.”

Actually, the bustle on Tiffany is not the real bulge………..a nice cover up though!

This portrait of Cecilia Giménez’s grandmother shows that it really was in the blood.

I love that dress!!

Yes, that dress does make your butt look big.

The alcohol all goes to her butt….

“What? No, that’s not a bustle, I just need a fresh pair of Depends.”

This guy did an amazing number of frilly women! Just google is name as an image search.

Does this paintbrush make my (backside) look big?

Tiffany can etch on my etchings anytime!

Model Making Mischief: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Pranks in art" Wikimedia 

(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 Madrazo, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting, plus the museum’s Description. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3310 (April 24, 2024) 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. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the December 19, 2018, strip being the prior.

“I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you to get out from under there, Roberto. I’m still having trouble remembering what your moustache looks like and regardless of what you say the feel of it isn’t helping.”

“Antics of the Model,” ca. 1885

Now for the happy little trees! :)

Paint me like one of your comic strip characters.

Raimundo vowed that from then on, he would only paint still life on April 1st.

does this dress make my rear look big? good, that’s what i thought

For Thursday:

if you wanted a seat at the table,

you either had to be able/

to write humongous checks/

Have magnificent pecs/

Or have legs like Betty Grable…

Democracy’s hairy faced heirs/

Resolve their important affairs/

Not with shooting or votes/

Or horse trading (with goats)/

But with fierce games of musical chairs..