That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 17, 2020

His South America was turning out ok, but his North America still needed a lot of work.

Thomas crapper carving the first toilet seat

This artist had an odd obsession with the pelvis.

Making fake dinosaur bones was not very profitable, but what else was Harvey going to do with a degree in sculpting?

Papa Luigi had always told Antonio not to let the pizza dough sit too long because it would harden. He just hadn’t told him how much it would harden.

Halfway through his sculpture of the semicolon, he froze and pondered Why the heck is a semicolon larger than a colon?

His inspiration arose/ from the stuff that came out of his nose/ but the problem he faces/ is that he replaces/ his model, each time that he blows.

He is plagued by indecision/ and he lives in fear of derision/ though he chisels and chisels/ his best effort fizzles./ He just can’t achieve his vision.

earl was known throughout town for his play-doh sculptures…

Is that Maxwell practicing?

Finally…Sven Bailey finally got that damned desiccated giant oyster shell open. Watch out, pearl, he’s coming after your nacreous beauty! He’ll just be stringing you along!

Yeah, these hand crafted berets take a little more work but they are really durable, you know? Wouldn’t go back to these flimsy ready made ones for anything!

Joe on his first day as an apprentice in a dental lab

His modern “semi-colon” was coming along fine, but he really longs for something to capture the past; he’d like to do a period piece.

While impressed by the quality, the shop foreman said, “We usually make these ceiling decorations out of plaster.”

Kinda big for an “Elf on the Shelf”.

Working on a scapula to accompany the forearm over the mantle. The round one is the knee cap to the leg he’ll do next.

Not wanting anything go to waste, Carl uses his last mistake as a cap.

Everyone in the mob called Fast Eddie a no good dirty chiseler and they were right.

Should you visit the Metropolitan Museum of Punctuation, beware of the signs reading “This Way to the Ellipsis.” You’ll . . .

The Marble Bicycle Seat company didn’t stay in business very long.

His stone hats never blew off in the wind but were much too heavy to catch on.

Everyone knows this painting is actually titled: “Artist’s untalented brother also tried art”

Lazy Lars Lutefisk claimed he was a rich and famous sculptor, but he really was just a two-bit chiseler!

That’ll get him. a govt grant.

True fact: The sculptor was actually the artist’s ex-boyfriend. He crafted some ghastly statues for the Helsinki train station.

Bristol’s ‘Banksy of Punctuation’ preparing for his first formal exhibition.

The artist regretted the day he accepted the commission from the Pope to make merkins for all of the dirty statues at the Vatican.

Gee, chiseling a nose for this Dick Tracy bust is more difficult than I thought!

Emil’s teacher told him he had to find his subject in the rock, and then take everything else away. Emil has been looking for about a week now, and so far, no luck.

Emil Wikström in His Studio in Paris: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dora_Wahlroos_-_Emil_Wikstr%C3%B6m_in_His_Studio_in_Paris.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/4151 

http://www.ts.fi/kulttuuri/1074255570/Dora+Wahlroos+laajentaa+kultakauden+taiteen+kuvaa 

https://www.keskipohjanmaa.fi/uutiset/33210/riitta-konttinen-dora-wahlroos 

all have Finnish info about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by her have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/07/11?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included one of the artist info URLs; the other has since disappeared).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2580 (November 16, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Emil grumbled about his latest commission: “Whoever heard of a salt sculpture? Wait’ll the humidity changes…”

Jonny the virgin was going to have a vagina, come hell or high water.

As Sven worked his chisel over the stone he thought to himself: Ya and I be calling dis vun Dora Wahlroos . Let them bugger critics figure out vat dat iss. :>)

The codpiece is too small for him he says does he? I’ll show him codpiece.