That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 01, 2021

For some reason, her best selling works were self-portraits.

“I capture the blokes with pulse-pounding strokes

and finish them off with élan.

The gals I give life with a spare palette knife,

and charge them as much as I can."

She is elegant, noble and proud. / Though a woman, her head is unbowed. / Most great painters were male / but she knows she won’t fail. / With artistic skills, she’s well-endowed. /// A great colorist, stately and pale, / she painstakingly adds each detail. / “Allegory of Painting,” / very close now to fainting. / She is laced up too tight to inhale.

Her husband was very proud of her work. He sold many under his name.

Pole dancer Clomidea moonlighted (moonlit?)

as a nude portrait painter, ten bucks a sit.

But to tell you the truth

her clients stayed couth,

while Clomie exposed every bit.

DO Not confuse Cleavaggio with “Tittoretto” – or with Titian ! She is a titan in her own right !

her onlyfans portraits were the hit of the gallery

If you feel that your bosom’s so fair/

That the whole world deserves to share/

Then take off your sweater/

‘Cause there’s nobody better/

To depict it with loving care !///

If you’re hoping to be well-known /

Or just tired of being alone /

you are wise to entrust/

depicting your bust/

The period between High Renaissance Art and Baroque Art is known as the “Mammarist” period. Cleavaggio was it’s foremost practitioner. (Enough with the pedantry, bubeleh. LOLOLOL!)

“Is this painting what’s called a still life?” / “It’s my self-portrait,” answered his wife. / “A still life might be fruit.” / “Then my guess was astute; / I see melons!” Thus started their strife.

You know, this paint by numbers thing is quite fun.

I wonder where she rests her paint brush….

MOUNDS

“And two happy little breasts live right here.”

She took up painting her own portraits – others were to honest about her actual cleavage size.

She’s a woman who’s made it her mission/

to paint better tits than Titian,/

better breasts than Bruegel/

(whom you also may “google”)../

You know this picture was faked – artists don’t dress up when they go to the studio. This picture’s like seeing a car mechanic in his Sunday finest.

Although she claimed she merely dabbled in art, according to the guys in the workshop, she did more than just dabble!

Hmmm. Maybe I could do better left handed.

She should be wearing a smock. It’s going to be hard to clean up.

With her around, I could watch paint dry.

It was years before she realized that her teacher’s advice of “you’ll get rich if you can paint a nice pair of tits” had nothing to do with depictions of small wild birds.

With dark curly locks o’er her chest/Her paintings were viewed by the best/Some said that her cleavage/Was just above average/Unlike Dolly Parton, less “blessed.”

She: I guess cleavage and a slip nip are in now?

Interesting note (that I just made up) this is actually a reminder to himself that Barbieri needed to get two honeydews when he goes to the market.

Hector knew doing all those exercises at the gym would help in his crossdressing.

“Well, what did you expect? This whalebone corset’s so danged tight they’ve got to go somewhere.”

She tried painting coffee mugs// And tried painting shiny shells of bugs// She had no more grief// after including 3D relief // to portraits with big milk jugs.

A gentleman might this retort give:

“Madame appears unduly sportive!

If one is that buxom,

the dress where one tucks ‘em

ought surely be made more supportive.”

CLEVAGGIO: What the hell, I think I’ll throw in a little nip slip for when Melcher decides to feature this painting I’m working on in his Priceless comic. Give the lads a thrill…

“So, what are you painting? Hmmm, just words: Help! Can’t Breath! Corset too tight!”

Nice cleavage!

Allegory of painting: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Francesco_Barbieri_(warsztat)_-_Alegoria_Malarstwa.jpg 

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

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/11/masterpiece-2836.html 

I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 6 works, by this artist or his workshop (this is the first here by that, and used his given name instead of his pseudonym), have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/01/20?comments=visible 

has the prior (the here links in my blog entry comment point to the artist info URLs in my comment there).

VAN GOGH after her transformation, still painting.

Her well-endowed bosom sustaining / A sight that brought men close to fainting / She cried out, “Woe is me! I’m an artist, you see / But no one will look at my painting!”

The renaissance was before scarves became popular. Or perhaps, the reason that scarves became popular.

‘’The twins are freezin’ … where’s my scarf?’’

‘’oh yeah, that’s better.’’

@Call Me Ishmael; Ish – when I first saw the painting, I figured you would have something great going on in the mornin’

… and that concludes the 8th training session on how to paint. Next week, we will cover painting items in the background.