That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 18, 2019

After the second brownie, Carmen couldn’t take her eyes off her own hands.

Is it kinky for an artist to have the model caress his paintings?

Turn of the century French water heaters came with large Impressionist owner’s manuals.

The artist couldn’t afford the model’s fee, the oil and enough coal for the heater.

Maria had an abnormally high arch on her right foot and what appeared to be seven fingers on her left hand, but she clearly had issues with putting her clothing on correctly so the artist hired her on the spot.

Baby, you look hot, and that’s no sheet.

Before he sold his first painting, Andrew Wyeth had no travel budget, so he used to pose his models before landscape paintings he bought at garage sales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%27s_World

From the studio’s state, she could see/ he could probably not pay her fee/ and the pose was bizarre/ (her strangest by far !)/ and the cold made her have to pee..

Darn hangnail.

Cremation: My last chance for a smokin’ hot body.

I can see the appeal of curling up on the floor in front of a roaring fire with a good book. But curling up next to a space heater with a mediocre painting? Not so much.

Well, I like her.

“We have no money for coal.” “This painting is going in next.!”

“Just think of what I can do with all that hush-money!”

To the tune of “Matchmaker Matchmaker”

Space heater, space heater give me some heat,distract me please, from this weird creep.He said I would be famous if I gave him a chance.But should not an artist wear some pants?

Put on a sweater if you’re cold he says. Like people in Brazil have sweaters. I’m already overdressed for church!

Is first Russian Playboy spread.

Helen, about to learn the hard way not to wear white when finger painting.

“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up! Quit painting that stupid picture and get over here and help me!”

Hope that rug doesn’t have fleas!

Privately, Maria thought this ‘starving artists schtick’ was getting a bit old.

Mathilde knew how eccentric Henrique was … but considering how freezing cold his studio was, she was damn grateful he’d decided on this kinky pose.

Model at rest: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henrique_Bernardelli_-_%27Model_at_Rest%27,_c._1890,_pastel_on_paper.JPG 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting. File history has strip coloration image.

http://www.askart.com/artist/Henrique_Bernardelli/11088565/Henrique_Bernardelli.aspx 

http://enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br/pessoa8633/henrique-bernardelli 

both have info about this artist (the first sparse, the 2nd in Portuguese with links to more info; again, Chrome can automatically translate), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2246 (July 17, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Little known footnote to Art History: George Seurat (see “La Grande Jatte”) could not afford to heat his studio.In an effort to reproduce faithfully his models’ goose pimples, he invented Pointillism !

“The paint squishes up between my fingers! Should it still be this wet?”

“I-I larrv yoooo! Nooone under-derstand yu-you like I-I-me!”

Model: “Oh, that is a painting? I’m sorry, it looked like a chalkboard that many people have scribbled on, so I was just … sorry”.