That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 03, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  over 5 years ago

    The moment that Thomas decided which career to pursue.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 5 years ago

    That’s some strong paint thinner!

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    Strob Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Despite the mixed-media possibilities, painting with a violin instead of a brush never really caught on.

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    Bilan  over 5 years ago

    Thomas was a starving artist and a bottle of rotgut was cheaper than the model’s fee.

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    juncarlo  over 5 years ago

    Seeing it from here, this painting that I made it’s not truly so ugly.

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    ccomebacktour  over 5 years ago

    If Nero can play his fiddle while an ENTIRE CITY burned, I can paint, dammit !

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    pcolli  over 5 years ago

    I’m sure many art galleries are full of paintings done under the influence of some substance or other.

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    Egrayjames  over 5 years ago

    His mother had always told him, “Keep your feet off the furniture!”. He didn’t listen to her then…..and he wasn’t going to listen to her now.

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    rmremail  over 5 years ago

    After Thomas finished a painting, he liked to down a bottle of rot gut and play the violin as he stared at it. It didn’t make it any better, but it didn’t make it any worse either.

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    Knightman Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Here lies Thomas, Shot by a music critic!!!

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 5 years ago

    “‘Make your own porn, make your own porn’ they said. Well wait until they see THIS.”

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    ptnjbrown  over 5 years ago

    There is too much violins in today’s art.

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    J Short  over 5 years ago

    Back in the day, upskirt shots were a lot harder to pull off.

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    thebashfulone  over 5 years ago

    And that’s where I was working when the model smacked me in the face.

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    jbrobo Premium Member over 5 years ago

    “Hummm. If you lay down and squint just right, it looks kinda like a violin .”

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    aerotica69  over 5 years ago

    A young Tommy Chong tries to decide between music and art as a career.

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    Rev Phnk Ey  over 5 years ago

    Earl, the drunk and ambidextrous artist.

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    Call me Ishmael  over 5 years ago

    He was master of color and line/ but sadly, HIS master was wine/ and, since was prone/ to drink alone/ he frequently painted …supine !

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    Linguist  over 5 years ago

    " Man, this is some really good weed… "

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    lagoulou  over 5 years ago

    Watching porn the old-fashioned way…

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Self-Portrait of the Artist in His Studio

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self_Portrait_of_the_Artist_in_His_Studio_by_Thomas_Hovenden_1875.jpeg 

    has info and links that point to info about this roughly B2 paper size painting.

     

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

    https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=761 

    https://americanart.si.edu/artist/thomas-hovenden-2320 

    https://www.philamuseum.org/doc_downloads/education/object_resources/47809.pdf 

    http://web.archive.org/web/20170906181226/https://www.nationalacademy.org/collections/artists/detail/626/ 

    http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Thomas_Hovenden/23743/Thomas_Hovenden.aspx 

    http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/8aa/8aa547.htm 

    all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, the 6th can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here (3 times, including 1 repeat). 

    https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/08/08?comments=visible 

    has the repeat (my comment there has the last artist info URL).

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2194 (May 2, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

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    Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 5 years ago

    “You’ll practice out in the tool shed til you can get a decent sound out of that thing.”

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    Another Take  over 5 years ago

    A millennial friendly work space was just what newly minted C.P.A. Tommy had been looking for.

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    Papared25  over 5 years ago

    “Horace, whatcha doing up there?” “Just fiddlin’ around and watchin’ paint dry, Ma.” “Just like his good-fer-nothin’ pa,” Ma muttered. “Just ‘xactly like him.”

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    d1234dick Premium Member over 5 years ago

    turning out 35 landscapes a day is very tiring, so Wolfgang takes it easy when he can.

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    the1951hapster  over 5 years ago

    Amedeo Modigliani paints another of his infamous portraits, while his Muse (image redacted) provides inspiration.

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    CougarAllen  over 5 years ago

    Adept at multitasking, Thomas could paint a portrait, play a violin concerto, and smoke a cigarette, all at the same time – while lying supine in a drunken stupor!

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    Buzzworld  over 5 years ago

    Some good weed, a picture of Dante’s Inferno and “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” was written.

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