That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 16, 2019

Alexandra was just grateful that she didn’t have paint her subject in the nude.

She at the easel, he at ease.

“I was drawing a bath before we came out here – did you turn the water off?”

Margie couldn’t understand why she always got a crick in her neck when she painted.

After Shelly is finished the painting, Jim will put his name on it.

Typical. Here Edna was painting that nice fountain and pool, when this jerk decided to paint-bomb her work.

But clearly he failed to understand that just because you are part of the scene does not mean you will be part of the picture. Nor that Edna was a humor cartoonist for the early issues of PlayLady and was adept at drawing tiny, mishapen male sexual organs for laughs… and her likeness of his face would be spot on!

Yes, she thought to herself, that book Memoirs of Matilda had it spot on:

“And then revenge is very good eaten cold, as the vulgar say.”

“Honey, don’t go mad, but wouldn’t it be better if you dedicate yourself to photography?”

Edna knew that a still life always used dead animals, so her first portrait was no exception. She’d call it a Study in Stiff.

John in his smugness at the thought that his mother saying that she could paint just as good or if not better than him.

Sunscreen? Shmumscreen.

“Hey wait a minute. You’re making it look like the fountain is coming out of the top of my head”

Due to her profound hearing loss Miss Daisy was painting MALES,rather than her NAILS !

“I’ll just have forty winks, dear, while you paint that tree.”

Please Mr. Whipple….Don’t squeeze the charmin!

Edna hadn’t been planning to paint when she left the apartment this morning, but the mood had struck her as she was passing by the fountain. She wasn’t certain who’s easel it was.

He threw off her portrait when he grew that moustache.

“Are you quite done mansplaining?”

“What? I think it’s cute when a lady gets it into her silly little head that she can paint.”

“All right, have it your own way. But you’re still sitting on the Burnt Umber.”

“Okay now. This time I’m painting YOU, big shot artist. Stop fidgeting, Mr. ‘Keep the Exact Same Expression!’ And don’t slouch like that. Sit up straight. Haaarrrr-UMPH!”

The Kleagle was quite the aesthete/ but insisted she paint in her sheet/ if the portrait was good / she would put on her hood / and bomb that black church up the street.

Before you look at the finished product understand that I don’t do mustaches. Or noses.

By a waterfall, I’ll be painting you…

Finally the morphine kick in. Now’s the time escape…

When the artist moonlights as a beekeeper.

Edna in her hazmat suit painting a radioactive 7 placard.

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Singer_Sargent_-_The_Fountain,_Villa_Torlonia,_Frascati,_Italy_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/sargent_john_singer.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=368 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/john-singer-sargent 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/sargent/sargent_bio.htm 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/s/sargent/biograph.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent 

http://www.avictorian.com/Sargent_John_Singer.html 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20246/john-singer-sargent 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/187 

https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/85-years-after-john-singer-sargent/ 

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/sarg/hd_sarg.htm 

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/sargent/index.html 

http://www.jssgallery.org/Biography/Biography.htm 

http://hoocher.com/john_singer_sargent/john_singer_sargent.htm 

http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/John_Singer_Sargent/21045/John_Singer_Sargent.aspx 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, the last can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 5 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/08/02?comments=visible 

has the prior (this comment has 1 more artist info URL).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2266 (August 15, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

You know, John, I’ve tried and tried, but I just find you unpalettable!

after siting for hours watching her draw lines , Clifton had a massive hemorrhage of the brain"

she so enjoyed dress as a bedouin day…

Fortunately Lucy came up with a harebrained plan that she and Ethel could use to get that painters license. Much hillarity ensued until Ricky showed up threatening to take his congas back to Cuba.

“Yeah, we’re wearing all white to paint. What could possibly go wrong?”