That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 14, 2019

The family Christmas card that wasn’t sent.

They are reading my comments.

These girls auditioned to play the twins in The Shining. They didn’t get the part.

Probably because they aren’t twins.

Maybe they are upset because their dad included that uncomfortable picture of them in the book.

“We may have to have our portraits painted, but we don’t have to like it!”

The section on Phallic Portraiture is in the back of the book.

What kids looked at before the iPad.

On a real note, I hope Melcher releases another collection and more greeting cards.

Time for the real how hard did aging hit you challenge.

That moment when you realise your parents haven’t cunningly hidden a large cheque within the pages and the book itself really is the present!

“On the count of three, everybody say "Glum""

Starter:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flameng_Francois_Family_Portrait_Of_A_Boy_And_His_Two_Sisters.jpg

What? You ordered anchovies on the pizza? Oh mother!

Mom? When’s the war going to be over? I’m so tired of wearing these drapes. We suthunuhs deserve real clothes!

Here’s a good page on the artist and his work, very simply written but with good information and a very good gallery of the work. My take: beautiful and remarkably highly skilled, but cold. Even the war pictures are calculated to a hair snd lack feeling. fiveminutehistory.com/francois-flameng-interpreter-of-beauty/

If Lizzie Borden had reproduced…….

she looks like she is saying, “Oh, Father, how very droll.”

When Dad, 17 snapshots ago, said, “This will be the last one.”

Back in the day of the Poloroid Instamatic when you had to wait for each shot to develop.

Dad reading instructions for new Christmas camera while kids wait.

Snotty stepchildren sizing up Daddy’s new bride.

We asked for a comic book, and all we got was this dumb book with old pictures.

Must have had a sale on red cloth and ribbons at the dry goods store…

Two hours of reading for 1 hour of screen time. How close is the timer now?

Brother and Sisters or The Picture Book or Family Portrait of a Boy and his two Sisters admiring a Sketch Book: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flameng_Francois_Family_Portrait_Of_A_Boy_And_His_Two_Sisters.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly B2 paper size painting. It has been modified since @Czarka pointed to it.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/flameng_francois.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=1423 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/f/flameng/biograph.html 

http://sceco.univ-poitiers.fr/hfranc/FFlameng.htm 

http://www.safran-arts.com/42day/art/art4feb/art0228.html#flameng 

http://fiveminutehistory.com/francois-flameng-interpreter-of-beauty/ 

all have info about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate the .fr URL), the last also pointed to by @rugeirn, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2115 (January 13, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Why not? Self promotion makes good sense.

In the Oxford English Dictionary, the picture which accompanies the definition of “entitlement”. I think that little fellow has heel spurs.

“I thought you said this picture book had male nudes in it.”

Counting the days until television is invented.

“We ARE smiling. If you hadn’t married a woman with acute RBF we’d all be looking like chocoholics in a flood at a Ghirardelli factory.”