That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 18, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 5 years ago

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

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 5 years ago

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

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    Strob Premium Member almost 5 years ago

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

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    Bilan  almost 5 years ago

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

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    Papared25  almost 5 years ago

    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.

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    J Short  almost 5 years ago

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

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    WoodstockJack  almost 5 years ago

    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

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    Call me Ishmael  almost 5 years ago

    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..

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    thebashfulone  almost 5 years ago

    Darn hangnail.

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    Plods with ...™  almost 5 years ago

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

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    rmremail  almost 5 years ago

    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.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 5 years ago

    Well, I like her.

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    PO' DAWG  almost 5 years ago

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

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    Bookworm  almost 5 years ago

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

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    TerBer  almost 5 years ago

    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?

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    Another Take  almost 5 years ago

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

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 5 years ago

    Is first Russian Playboy spread.

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    Rev Phnk Ey  almost 5 years ago

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

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    Indianapolis Smith  almost 5 years ago

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

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    lagoulou  almost 5 years ago

    Hope that rug doesn’t have fleas!

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    MissScarlet Premium Member almost 5 years ago

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

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    Linguist  almost 5 years ago

    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.

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    mabrndt Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    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.

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    Call me Ishmael  almost 5 years ago

    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 !

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    anomaly  almost 5 years ago

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

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    GoComicsGo!  almost 5 years ago

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

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    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”.

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