That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 14, 2013

I’m amazed that she’s still awake.

Unfortunately the crazy glue on her fingers was not dry.

This is what people did before television.

Woman debating whether she should give up painting and take up the mandolin.

When will they invent electric lighting? It’s too dark to paint and this paint brush feels like a musical instrument.

Still better than the Kardashians or Jersey Shore.

Click-to-enlarge image can be found here, or here, with a smaller enlargement at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry.Young Woman in Red Blouse (AKA Young Woman with a Mandolin, link shows Wikipedia page) is shown by its current-location page (Google translated, different coloration image).Another different coloration, click-to-enlarge image can be found here. Another different coloration image can be found here. The artist included a mandolin in several paintings of (young) women, available online, even another one, found here, with a red blouse. The artist‘s Wikipedia page and collection (many more under Subcategories at each level).Second (not my best day), of the 3 works by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.

Tuning up for “Idol. .”

I went to see the Caravaggio exhibit at LACMA yesterday and discovered that I now can’t view a painting without trying to caption it inappropriately!

Play, lady, play.

“Alors! Another broken string! Damn cheap Chinese mandolin!”

watching paint dry, the grass grow, clouds move, or watching golf? decisions, decisions.

Here is another work by this artist.

Did she paint with that mandolin? Or did she paint while playing the mandolin?