That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 21, 2024

/// Henrik Fleming, the seagoing Swede,

was an Admiral— well-known indeed.

He would sail into battle

with his large silver rattle,

and by rattling foes, he’d succeed.

Henric was about to throw down the gauntlet and prepare for a mariachi band showdown.

Must have been something I ate that gives me these awful plot lines.

Billy Gibbons’ ancestor?

The artist had to work fast /

To avoid the withering blast !/

The old style grenade/

has a fuse that’s delayed -/

but the model’s in a full-body cast.

The artist had been reassured/

That his sitter was “combat-inured”/

And was fully aware/

Of what he had there:/

A grenade in the shape of a gourd.

His face-locks deserve an award or prize… or both.

That’s actually someone else’s right arm reaching into the portrait. That person intends to reach into Henrik’s pocket, for a quick game of pocket pool (how quick depends on Henrik).

They said that black makes you look thinner, so he had the artist paint him in a lightless void.

Sven, having lost a button on his jacket and finding himself unable to procure a bobby pin on such short notice before the arrival of the artist, decided to chain his tunic shut.

Sir Chadwick was so shocked about his pigeon tweet going viral across Europe he dropped his man-bun twirler.

I’m going to Comic-con as Worf, son of Mogh. Cool,eh?

Hurry up and finish the painting, I really need to get to the toilet!

Just as the picture was going to be snapped some threw a baby rattle on his lap!!

OK, now model the king with the sword through his head.

Now I’ve got “Simple Simon” by 1910 Fruitgum Company as an ear worm.

Tweedledum said Tweedledee had spoiled his nice new rattle.

This guy looks a little 2 dimensional.

How the “one glove” look got started.

Henry Fleming (1584-1650) baron, Admiral, governor, married to 1. Ebba Eriksdotter Bååt, 2. Sigrid Kurtzel: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Jacob Heinrich Elbfas" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave 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 39574, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size, 1631 painting. If your browser isn’t set up to handle .tif images, to see an enlarged image there and avoid the 42.88 MB image download to your device, click a size under the image, rather than the image itself. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3395 (October 21, 2024) 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’ve added a comment there pointing to the sparse info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

Melcher says “Date Unknown”, but there is a date of 1631 painted right in the picture to the left of Jacob.

Not one of the finalists to lead the YMCA song.

The origin of the term “flat black”.

Oh that? That’s my new Hitachi wand. Wanna see what it does!?!

“…and you’ll stay in the brig until you tell us whole stole the starboard maraca!”

Early in his career Mr. T moonlighted as a maraca player to earn the money to build up his collection of gold chains.

For Tues. 22 October:

/// “What’s that painting? I think that it’s good.”

The American Golfer, a Wood.

“No, I think that you’re wrong.

Woods have shafts which are long.

It’s an iron.” You’ve misunderstood.