That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 17, 2023

During the Great War, even people at home wore camouflage clothing.

/// Thera sits on the couch in a tizzy.

Complex patterns can make her feel dizzy.

She gets visions, (not pain),

from an optic migraine.

Does her gold-on-gold skirt look too busy?

Eventually Shelly was fully consumed by the couch.

Where’s Wilma, home edition…

That’s what happens when you don’t open a window to get rid of paint fumes!

The girls who embroidered for William Morris never got over the trauma.

Finally, a comic that the ‘boys’ MAY NOT be able to sexualize. roflol

A successful demonstration of her new stain resistant skirt in a closed room with an open paint mixer.

From: @Call me Ishmael

https://www.gocomics.com/profile/2288699

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There’s Hyacinth, Daisy, and Rose/

A trio that everyone knows/

In a happy menage/

Where it’s all camouflage/

‘Cause their wallpaper matches their clothes !

This was Jane’s “Arts and Crafts” floral stage. You should see what she created when learning how to use a BeDazzler!

Wendy went on to invent camouflage. She hasn’t been seen since.

My eyes hurt…

Now I know why these new glasses were only $7.95

Domestic camouflage

Although having lost her husband and children in a tragic boating accident years before, Madame was never lonely, as she imagined countless figures that emerged from the patterns on all the surfaces of her sewing room.

Some relatives and former friends considered her fancies frightful and disturbing. They urged her to sell the house and live with them (their intentions were obviously suspect).

But Madame dismissed their advice. She considered the figures harmless and comforting. She claimed that the patterns had stimulated her “magic eye.”

(Inspired somewhat by The New Twilight Zone, January 1989 Episode, “Something in the Walls”)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_in_the_Walls

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734734/

FINE! We’ll plant a garden. Geez!

How long would it take to paint this!

After delivering this painting, Edouard, spent a week in the local opium den sleeping it off!

If you hold it close to your nose then slowly move it away the 3D Zebra will appear,

Oh, give me a home/

With its walls monochrome…/

Where my eyeballs ain’t always at play../

Where my nerves aren’t frazzled/

And I’m not always dazzled/

By designs that just won’t go away….

Her sisters were insanely jealous that Antoinette brazenly displayed her plain golden shirk. The hussy.

She’s quietly going insane !/

They’ve consulted physicians in vain,/

Yet the problem persists../

She may soon slash her wrists!/

Perhaps she just needs something plain ?

How to get guests who’ve stayed too long to leave.

i think this was an early attempt at camouflage…

The hottest trend in interior design: domestic camo.

One of the earliest examples of using MS Paint’s “Fill” bucket.

When you like the furniture samples so much you want to wear them.

“When a cowboy comes into some money the first thing he does is goes to a furniture upholsterer, picks out the gaudiest print he can find, and says ‘Make me a suit out of that.’” – Chris Isaak (paraphrased)

AIEEEE! SOMEONE’ HAS LEFT MICHELLE’S BODYLESS TORSO ON THE DIVAN!!! What? Oh…

You’re all going to have to speak up; I can’t hear you over this painting.

Before there was Klimt.

https://www.pinterest.com/caholmes67/carol-burnett-went-with-the-wind/

The artist must’ve been on psychedelics.

<Insert “Jill Biden fashion” joke here>

Charlotte was the origin of the term ‘wallflower’.

Busy, busy, busy.

Characters in an interior. Intimacy or Decorative panel or The reader: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"File:Vuillard - Personnages dans un intérieur. L’intimité, 1896.jpg" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first File: found, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3082 (February 17, 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 (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

Eduard rejected pointilism in favor of decoupage and crochet: the arts and crafts movement.

In the midst of a heartbreak, the ladies knew it was best to just let her be, and let her play “he loves me, he loves me not” until she tires out and falls asleep.

Margo, hoping to be left alone tried to blend into the wall, alas no luck.

One species of siren has lost the ability to attract prey by singing. Instead, their skin copies the background, even better than chameleons. They wait in ambush until a man walks by, then spring upon him.

When you are within their natural range (the drawing room) be wary of walls.

“Madame Vuillard Reading”

I’ve had this picture up on my screen all day. I love it! :)

“How about this one? It’s called “Head Cheese.”

/// About Ish’s fate, rightly we vent,

and debate why “away” he’s been sent.

But, it’s not Ish alone

who is no longer shown.

Do we know just where Dragoncat went?

/// She had asked if her roommates would mind

if she had the front room redesigned

by her uncle Pierre.

They said they didn’t care.

Learned too late Pierre’s legally blind.

@Sol – nuthin’s as pernicious as a pattern repetitious in the mor-ornin’..

That is Cleo, she loves making silky clinging nighties….they sell like hot cakes!

@Sol, re: Uncle Pierre..

These ladies now live in a lair/

Designed by blind Uncle Pierre/

But Pierre is not there/

He’s abiding elsewhere/

Thus Pierre, “my dear, frankly don’t care!”///

The ladies now live in a bubble/

With their eyesight in terrible trouble/

For, by patterns surrounded/

Their vision’s confounded/

They’re seeing septuple- not just double!

Thera quickly realized her work was cut out for her in the world champion hide-and-seek contest; and decided to study up on the intricacies.

For tomorrow:

Socrates is a man of the mind:/

A philosopher, wise and refined/

But that mind was benumbed/

And Soc swiftly succumbed/

To the sight of Alc’s sprightly behind.. ///