That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 12, 2023

Thomas had a hard time accepting that his big sister was a George Washington groupie.

Little Timmy was accessing his future bride’s talents.

Linda appreciated having a ‘super fan’, but having him watching over her shoulder as she painted. Every. Single. Day. was nerve wracking.

Dorian Gray’s sister, Dotty. Every painting she made looked like you, but as an old man (or woman)

/// She’s a painter whose work has been shown,

yet she’s raising her son all alone.

Now she turns to the lad,

“Mon fils, this is your Dad.

He prefers that his name not be known.”

/// “You’ve been asking for him your whole life,

and my silence on this has caused strife.

But you’re now of an age

to refocus your rage.

He’s got nine kids and won’t leave his wife.”

A woman who skillfully paints/

Is bound to elicit complaints/

From less talented males/

Whose ability pales/

And demand she submit to restraints.

Actually, I’m most impressed that she is painting while wearing pristine white satin.

That dog sure looks bow legged

It looks good. How much do you want to put one on each dollar bill?

She thought she was alone but was mortified when she heard little Tommy’s voice behind her. “That helping of beans and cabbage did a number on me, too, Abby.”

Better then calling her brother “boy-assa”.

“Geez, Ma – another portrait? Don’t you ever do a landscape?”

“Je l’regrette beaucoup mon chér/

But the money’s in here – not out there../

The client who pays/

Our expenses defrays:/

So Maman never paints en plein air…///

I’ve concluded that poverty’s tough/

And I simply haven’t the stuff/

For the rigors intense/

Of a life in Provence/

And to live hand-to-mouth, like Van Gogh…///

Now, mother is busy, my dear/

So get your young @$$ outta here/

Though the weather is sunny/

Mother knows time is money:/

Begone, or I’ll cut off your ear !”

“Everyone’s an f-ing critic! Even my own kid’s gotta put his two cents in!”

May I ask, do you paint nudes….?

Andrew Dice Clay, before he gr- wait, did he ever actually grow up?

“How come the head is too big for the body?”

“No, really, who painted that?”

Though she lacks Gericault’s capacity/

and she cannot match David’s veracity /

and she cannot do things’/

that were easy for Ingres/

Still, you’ve got to admire her audacity…

At first glance, I thought the gentleman’s head was mounted on the wall, and this femme fatale took trophies.

and then the fight started

Portrait of an Artist in Her Studio: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University" site=https://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 Category: found, and once there find the text string Studio, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3163 (July 12, 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). So far 48 works, with initially no or current unknown attribution, have been used here. The July 10, 2023, strip has the prior.

She’s a good painter, but ruined a lot of good dresses due to her vanity.

I hope he never recovers from the injury and pain she is about to inflict.

It’s true her paintings were first class

She’d received many trophy’s of brass

But when she rose to take a bow

The men applauded and wondered how

They’d missed an aft so plump and world class

Lillibeth having a bad case of farsightedness needed to have a very long brush.