That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 19, 2023

While posing for the painting, Frank started to develop feelings for the mannequin he was supposedly attacking.

Artist doing a ‘green screen’ scene, where the protagonist slays the orc lord.

“I can’t stand it anymore! We’ve been posing here for three hours, and that whole time, you’ve been letting it rip! First it was a one cheek sneak, then it was a bazooka blast from all of your cabbage. If I catch so much as another whiff, I will stick this sword where the light don’t shine!”

/// He must paint many figures, he’d known,

but his model is posing alone.

Julius set up a dummy

(although it looked crummy).

Round an armature, padding was sewn.

/// Wires bent inside helped the doll pose

with the model who, next to it, froze.

Then the costume was changed

and the two rearranged.

So… which one is the dummy? Who knows.

“Do you not have enough of this pose? This is silly, in real combat I would grab this foe much lower and make his voice much higher. I want REAL Machismo to woo my lady into complete orgasmic submission.

“What do you mean, you don’t have the money for the painting you commissioned last week? Squeaky, take ’im out back and show hows we handle deadbeats.”

Joel was a dedicated comic book artist, only the best models got to pose for his panels

He’s recording a heated dispute/

Twixt an armed and violent brute/

(Wearing red panty hose !)/

And a fellow who chose/

To fight in his birthday suit.

My pronoun is “they/them” got it!

The judiciary spared no expense for the courtroom sketch artist.

The dispute (so it seems) arose/

Over which gets the panty hose/

A struggle ensued/

And the dude in the nude/

Was deftly deprived of his clothes.///

The outcome was never in doubt./

It wasn’t a fight – twas a rout../

But what’s going on here/

Isn’t terribly clear-/

What on earth is this painting about?

I’ll call it “The Red Raider vs. the Silver Salamander”.

Crime scene recreation was in its infant stages back in 1875.

Back then, this was the only acting work that Tom Cruise could get … and mercifully, there was no dialogue.

Nothing is as gay as a fray in the atelier in the mor-ornin’…

It’s fine that this client wants a series of painting, but what he wanted to know was just what is “ASMR shaving”?

“Sir, please calm down. I assure you that my mannequin has not in fact said anything derogatory about your mother. Perhaps we should take a break for… ever?”

That would be a b—-h of a pose to hold.

In the Artist’s Studio: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Julius Leblanc Stewart" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string 3,003, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3167 (July 19, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 6 works (7 times, including a repeat) by him have been used here, the February 3, 2022, strip being the prior (the repeat).

It looks like the guy in silver finished off the entire keg.

It’s a painting of a sword-swallower teaching a student. Forcefully.

Or the order was right but making fun of his name was unforgivable.

The playwright’s considered terrific-/

It’s Shakespeare , to be specific/

But the critic astute/

Is that four-legged brute:/

The dog finds it all soporific !

“In the Artist’s Studio,” 1875

Some guy who goes buy the nom de plume of “Headless Horseman” gave it to me. Said he didn’t need it anymore.

I told you to stay away from my wife…!

“Uh, your cup says Mick and that is my name. My cup says Mike. You would not happen to be Mike would you?”