That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 09, 2020

And at that moment Giselle realized she had forgotten her pumice stone.

“Damn, I got crabs again.”

Preparing for her part in “The Birth of Venus”.

Wait a sec, I forgot to put on my shoes.

… and I forgot to put on what?!?

Daphne decided to put the “No shirt. No shoes. No service.” policy at the local convenience store to the test.

So her running on the beach was a real bust, eh?

Well, she can do very well in swimming using her unique breast stroke.

But on the bicycle part of the triathlon, the peloton will really be trying very hard to keep abreast of her…

‘damn sea urchins! where’s james when i need him…?’

This little piggy went to market, and this little piggy….

Ain’t no sand in my shoes, Honey.

Bottle? What bottle?

“Ha, she doesn’t know I finished the painting a month ago.”

That sand covered towel is going to be like an industrial loofah.

..butt seriously, folks – was there ever a better painter than Bouguereau ?

This ties in nicely with “The Argyle Sweater” offering today.

“Whew! It’s a good thing I wore my headband!”

I bet carrying the towel that way gets really awkward after the first couple of steps.

“Bathe then get sandy feet; when will William give me indoor plumbing?”

DAMN. I hate when I get a jellyfish sting at the nude beach! None of the boys are in a state where they’re able to pee on it. They’d be useless if I didn’t need a towel rack…

“Hey! Where is your face mask?”

Does anyone give a damn/ for the fate of the poor dying clam/ who lies crushed ’neath her heel/ while our comments reveal/ what lecherous beasts we all am ?

No body shaming there.

Recommend SPF 395.

Stupid sand burr!

Removing her heel plug, so she can deflate for easier transportation.

May I remove that splinter from your foot, PLEASE?

“Stepped on a pop top;

Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home."

(Jimmy Buffet)

What we called pop tops back in 1977 were so dangerous that they stopped making beverage cans that way, so that hardly anybody remembers anymore, if they ever knew, what that lyric originally referred to. (Today’s push-tab openers, which remain attached to the can, were preceded by pull-tabs or pop tops, which pulled loose from the can on opening and were easily lost track of, falling to ground to be stepped on or into the can to be swallowed.)

When Monica takes to the route/ to the beach where she likes to “ablute”/ all the lifeguards agree/ that’s the best place to be/ for she bathes in her birthday suit.

Everyone knows that you must keep acetone handy near Santa Barbara beaches. There’s always tar on the sand.

After the Bath or Bather: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_After_the_Bath_(1875).jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this painting.

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

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/bouguereau/bouguereau_bio.htm 

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/780/william-adolphe-bouguereau-french-1825-1905/ 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/b/bouguere/biograph.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-adolphe-bouguereau 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/william-adolphe-bouguereau/ 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=380 

http://www.all-art.org/history400-1.html 

http://www.williambouguereau.org/biography/ 

http://www.hoocher.com/William_Bouguereau/william_bouguereau.htm 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/7 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 18 works (19 times, including 1 repeat) by him have been used here. 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/04/12?comments=visible 

has the prior (#1 among the 4 in the strip, but no artist info URLs in my comment). 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/02/14?comments=visible 

the one by him before that, has the same artist info URLs in my comment, the 7th of which may be unresponsive.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2488 (July 8, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

That’s a very flamboyant garter.

Last one: you can spend a lot more dough/ on a Gauguin, Matisse, or Van Gogh /but better by far/ than a nude by Renoir: is a nude by Bill Bouguereau!

Who takes a glass bottle to ANY beach?

mermaid Gwen, having lost het tail fins still had a few scales left to pick off.

“I thought I could have some fun at the beach today, but no~ooo. That guy from engineering class took my bicycle. sigh It’s gonna be a long walk back to the dorm.”

What the H…??? This is Achilles’ heel! That B*****D took MY heel! Where did he run off to?

((“Oh great, I’ve got shi-”))