That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 09, 2020

Painter of Dogs Playing Poker series getting some advice.

This painter was under quarantine and had to work from home.

One of these things is not like the others.

“Hey buddy, when I said to draw me a bowl of milk, …”

Sigh! Everyone is an art critic!

The beginning of that series of paintings of poker-playing dogs. The commision payers make sure they get their money’s worth.

“Selfie” by Edwin Landseer

“Hey Fido. You drool on his left shoulder and I’ll drool on his right. That might get him to feed us. “

OK Melcher, you finally came up with a good one. ~Applauds~

The line formed behind the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show’s official portrait artist.

Every time he heard that little bell, memories flooded over him.

Dog looking over right shoulder thinking, “Wow, that’s one hot bitch you’ve drawn there!” Dog on left shoulder thinking, “My husband….What an idiot!”

the secret is bacon grease on the shoulders…

Edwin’s Boar War injury left him unable to detect dog breath in either himself or his dogs.

Ok, Lassie, tell me when he has signed the will making us the sole beneficiaries, then I go for his neck.

“No, no, no! You’ve got the chihuahua showing two aces, the lab showing an ace, and the beagle showing three aces, for crying out loud.”

“That’s him! He is the cur that defiled my the Fluffy.”

“Sir Edwin”, I think he became/ painting game was the source of his fame/ he did dog, steed, and stag/ but thought cats were a drag. /How, pray, could a man be so lame ?

“When Zeuxis unveiled his painting of grapes, they appeared so real that birds flew down to peck at them.”

“Somehow they don’t smell right, though…”

Critics had long claimed that Landseer’s art was going to the dogs. Finally, they had proof!

See right here is where I predict the next hurricane will go.

Ted Wilkens inventor of the Neck Gator.

“Make his nose a little longer and his ears a little shorter.”

The artist drawing a bone.

The Connoisseurs: Portrait of the Artist with two Dogs: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Edwin_Landseer_-_The_Connoisseurs_(Portrait_of_the_Artist_with_two_Dogs).jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

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

https://www.wikiart.org/en/edwin-henry-landseer 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=22 

https://figgeartmuseum.org/art/collections/item/the-pets-250169/988 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/l/landseer/edwin/biograph.html 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11801/edwin-landseer 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/915 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Edwin_Henry_Landseer/10069613/Edwin_Henry_Landseer.aspx 

http://www.thefamousartists.com/edwin-landseer 

http://victorianweb.org/painting/landseer/index.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/Landseer_Edwin.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, the askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to than what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 3 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/03/04?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there used those artist info URLs; the-athenaeum.org may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2423 (April 8, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

His painting turned him barking mad!

The three Barkley brothers always argued about who was the best looking.

He liked to think that the dogs enjoyed his company, but all they really wanted was food.

O.K. let’s guess which cur has the fur and what pair’s has the hair?

“Spike” dictates while his human writes a letter to the dog pound saying he will not return,I found a good home.

Captain Kangaroo in a moment of leisure.

No No No Mr Police Sketcher …

It was nine feet tall, and the fangs – much larger!