That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 03, 2019

The moment that Thomas decided which career to pursue.

That’s some strong paint thinner!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

There is too much violins in today’s art.

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

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

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

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

Earl, the drunk and ambidextrous artist.

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

" Man, this is some really good weed… "

Watching porn the old-fashioned way…

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.

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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!

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