That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 08, 2019

It was decided: whoever could draw the most accurate portrait of Carmen in the nude WITHOUT seeing her naked would win her hand.

“Wench get out of the way and bring more water. I can’t see that tree”

They had to paint outdoors since Amish models refuse to use electric lights.

1) “Are you painting me painting her? Stop that!”

2) “I don’t really see – why can’t we go on as three?”

3) I never knew that Bill Dana (“The Reluctant Astronaut”) could paint.

One of the earliest recorded paparazzi encounters.

Even rarer would be a wild Amish woman (although it wouldn’t surprise me if Ishmael says he dated some back in the day :-) )

maria could never work out why she attracted painters like flies on her smoke break…

The copycat artists were getting bolder.

Tan jacket mumbles something about the good old days when chicks posed nude.

Not only is it an Amish woman in the wild, it is an IDLE Amish women in the wild, the rarest of all Amish sightings!

A painting of a painter painting a painter painting a portrait of Polly in a popular pose.

Supermodel Jackee, everyone wanted to paint her.

In the early days, reality media shows required much longer production times.

“Could you stop fidgeting, please? It’s called a ‘still life’ for a reason, you know.”

Ad infinitum.

After tumbling into a seemingly inescapable culvert, the three intrepid travelers decided to make the best of their dire circumstances. HER: HEY! I think I hear a car! THEM: QUIET! We’re concentrating. These paintings may be all the world has to remember us by.

Jorge and Juan were too cheap to rent a studio, so they painted al fresco and used their sister as an unpaid model.

Two Painters: 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=300193 

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

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=2932 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184674816/jose-jimenez-aranda 

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O131839/washerwomen-disputing-oil-painting-jimenez-aranda-jose/ 

https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Jose.Jimenez.Aranda 

http://drawingacademy.com/jose-jimenez-aranda-1 

http://drawingacademy.com/jose-jimenez-aranda-2 

http://drawingacademy.com/jose-jimenez-aranda-part-3 

https://www.museodelprado.es/aprende/enciclopedia/voz/jimenez-aranda-jose/95205715-1109-4642-adbd-969d2ae6198a 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (the last in Spanish; again, Google Chrome can automatically translate), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/07/12?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the last 6 artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2302 (October 7, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

They painted until it warmed up and the light changed. Then they got out the hard cider and started painting life form studies.

“I will NOT remove my cap! I told you, no nudity!”

BANG!…..clip clop clip clop.. “It’s them Amish gangs again. Another drive-by.”

Even after the twins were surgically separated, Mutt and Jeff still preferred to be as close as possible.

“Whistler’s Mother” pre-motherhood in a less drab studio.

What Harold doesn’t know is that Samuel has a cheat sheet hidden on his palette, which is what he’s looking at, telling which colours that are favoured by the judges to win the contest this year.

homer (in brown) seems like he likes the man( in black) better than the girl on the hill.

Young Amish woman pondering if it is moral to accept money from men for posing for them

Jose decided that the only way to win the painting contest was to think outside the box.