That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 23, 2024

Sarah; posing as a hand model.

Artist trying to decide if he should paint her as an “innie” or an “outie.”

/// Naz is painting new model, Manette

Salomon, (his most beautiful yet).

Her nude body’s perfection

and exotic complexion

make him yearn to begin to beget.

Though he posed her with arms uplifted/

Off to sleep she had frequently drifted/

She claimed she was tired/

But she couldn’t be fired:/

She was simply too bloomin’’ gifted..

Ummmmm….what uhhh are they saying? I was….uhhhhhhhhh….a bit distracted…

I don’t care if this is a 100% effective contraceptive position- 20 years of raising a child can’t be this uncomfortable…..

“Ok get down from there, you’re blocking the bowl of fruit we are supposed to be painting.”

Even if she leans that way, one is still lower than the other.

Raul working out the details of a 3D version of Twister.

Yes, hold your hands like that. We’ll photoshop in the bow & arrows afterwards.

Okay, she shaves her underarms. How ‘bout “down there”?

Before publication, Playboy sent 3 live models every month. This one doesn’t fold in the center.

She better hope this guys a fast painter.

Sara didn’t mind their constant re-adjusting of her pose, but did they have to keep singing Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” while they did it?

“Kootchie-koo!”

“She’s alive, Charles. There’s no need to feel her pulse … or anything else, for that matter!”

“Wait!”, she says, “I’m confused. Why did you pick up your palette? When you said you were going to paint me, I assumed you would be using a canvas!”

That poor model! It’s like that game of “Freeze” where you torture someone by putting them in goofy uncomfortable positions. Next frame…she falls off the ledge.

“Doctor, are you sure this is the proper way to check my pulse?”

Please do NOT tell me what you folks have in mind once this session is over!!

Manette Salomon: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:19th-century paintings of nude sitting females" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Brave search engines, with DuckDuckGo and Ecosia currently finding its alternate name) 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 Manette, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting, including a Description link accessing the auction’s of it (explains who’s depicted, if you didn’t know). 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3363 (August 23, 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 .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by him have been used here, the October 24, 2017, strip being the prior.

“…And when you catch the ball, your arm should be about here. Think you’re ready for spring training?”

Little credit is ever given to the 19th century inventor of “Dabbing.”

To me, it looks like the painter added breasts to a male model.

The Goncourts were a couple of frères/

Each of whom owned a number of shares/

In a small enterprise/

Whose survival defies/

Belief – (as if anyone cares..)

“… guaranteed to stay inflated overnight, and you won’t even want to use a pump for it when you see where I’ve hidden the blow-up valve.”

The moment just after he stopped her from strangling him, and just before she slugged him with her high swift right.

Could you open the knees more, I’ll fake the arms.

“Sir, are you sure this is my ticket into show business?”

I’m running out of ideas … we can’t name the painting “Girl with pearl earring”

A still, of Cecelia banging her ankle on the podium and slipping on the furniture cover. Who says she can’t be graceful?

For Monday:

For want of persuasive powers/

He is bringing the lady flowers:/

It’s a pretty poor strategy/

For she has every allergy:/

When he leaves she’ll be sneezing for hours..