That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 10, 2021

François was hoping that statue for which he was modeling would do the same thing for him that the portrait did for his cousin Dorian.

“Wait a minute, why am I the only one here who is naked? That guy there is painting the whole studio and everyone else in here.”

He had a better fate than the friend he was with, who ended up in the operating theater.

“Does this lance look like I am overcompensating?”

Jacque had a strange feeling of deja vu. Then he remembered he has been in the same state of attire when he had waited 45 minutes for a doctor in an examination room.

The naked truth: Arthur loved his lance a lot!

Men at play at the atelier.

Nearly Great Moments in Phallic Portraiture.

“I’m gonna call it “2 Ball in the Corner Pocket”

Why is the guy in the lower left looking at the artist like that?

On next weeks episode Ringo Starr gets “Punk’d”!

“Never mind the chit chat, who’s next?”

Man in grey standing:“We have many pieces of art here, do you see a piece you like?”

Man in tan: “Yes, I’d like a piece of that one there.”

Man in grey standing:“Sir, that’s the model”

♩tell me, how much tequila did i drink last night…?

Seems to be an over-abundance of testosterone in one form or another!

Pierre looks at all the statues and tondos of only busts, and he again wonders why they insisted he strip down to just a paper towel.

“I think I’m in the wrong place. I was looking for Castle Anthrax.”

Jack could never get any respect. None of these men were interested in who he was, what was inside of him. Everywhere he went, people just looked at him like he was a piece of meat.

“Can we have him sit up straight?” “No, then it would be pornography”

Just another pre-wedding stag night that got out of hand. Those rascals really did it to me last night!

The problem that plagued poor Lance/(O, unhappy happenstance !)/ was his constant desire/ to shed his attire / and parade around town without pants.///But Lance pressed on, undismayed/ for the privates he proudly displayed/ were of shape and of size/ to memorialize/ and from lemons, he made lemonade..///in trousers, he’d been forced to waddle/ both boxers and briefs seemed to throttle/ his preposterous “parts”/ but thanks to the Arts/ he found huge success as a model.

At least he didn’t get ‘busted’.

Before the invention of the camera, Japanese men were forced to work harder at pretending their degenerate behavior was just an expression of “art”.

The students asked the model to put a cloth over his private parts, otherwise they were laughing too hard to paint.

“Anybody see a kidney? I seem to be missing one of mine.”

While the students were taking notes they began to realize that male pole dancing just wasn’t the same.

The winner of the French Artist’s Billiards Tournament gets a special bronze trophy … The loser gets to pose for that special bronze trophy.

They didn’t really want “Fast Eddie” and his pool cue to be a nude, but Eddie insisted. After the laughter died down though, Eddie strategically placed a cloth to cover his “embarrassment”.

Last time Pierre will ever agree to cover his wife’s shift at the studio!

“And over here, against this wall, as soon as these student finish their model drawing, we’ll put in a couple of shelves for all those busts we have for sale…”

Wrong herbs

“We appreciate your enthusiasm, but today we’re doing still lifes.”

The Studio of Jean-Antoine Houdon or Houdon in His Studio: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis-L%C3%A9opold_Boilly_-_Houdon_in_His_Studio.jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpage as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this 1808 painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/boilly_louis-leopold.html 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/boilly2.htm 

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

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3264/louis-leopold-boilly-french-1761-1845/ 

https://www.kimbellart.org/collection/ap-199001 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Louis_Leopold_Boilly/9000885/Louis_Leopold_Boilly.aspx 

https://prabook.com/web/louis.boilly/2168082 

https://mr-expert.com/en/artwork-quotes/louis-leopold-boilly-price/ 

https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.975.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 6 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/05/15?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included one of the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2703 (May 9, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“In the next round, contestants will attempt to snatch away the towel before getting hit with the stick.”

When Maria snuck into the studio to study art she didn’t know why women weren’t allowed. She’s now desperately trying to get the painters’ attention (far left) to “get me outta here, stat”.

Creating art takes time… like waiting for a pot to Boilly :>)

Recommending highly a new comic “Bozo”!

dwane, volunteering for the gay men’s social cub dinner.

Sonny decided to try modeling after after his marriage to Cher fizzled.

To my right is Paul, who is creating the exotic backgrounds in pastels. These will appear in place of the green screen you see behind the subject. Production staff will add feathers and antennae in the following frames.

Must … not … stare … at … female … sketcher … and … get … attracted …

Oh hell, I took this job because I thought there were going to be female artists to whomI could show my package!