That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 29, 2021

Grandmother: Three coins? That’s all your earned from a full day of posing for that cheapskate painter?

Mother: That’s alright, dear. You can always rejoin our respectable family business as a harlot.

“I know this is your first modeling gig, but you get union benefits after your fifth sitting.”

Princess Leia’s great-great-great-grandmother.

(a long, long time ago)

Turns out the artist was only interested in her feet.

He’s a mæstro of highest reknown. / The best teacher in all Brussels town. / He has talent and smarts. / He’s a doctor (of arts); / that’s the reason you had to strip down!

The maid of honor cops one last feel.

Mila shouldn’t have asked them to coddle / her, ignore she’d been “hitting the bottle,” / or to pay in advance. / Now she’d blown her last chance / to be chosen as Belgium’s Top Model.

This is your second bathroom break today — one more and we have to let you go. Take another coin for the toilet, which is coming out of your salary.

What are you complaining about? When I was your age I posed for his grandfather, the sculptor. He told me he was shortsighted and had to use the “touch system.”

On the one hand, you are naked, on the other hand is your breast…

Oh, I would trust him dearie. I’ve heard he’s the kind of artist that paints and tells. He said that Godiva wench smelled like a wet horse.

An implant here, a bit taken away there……

When the cart pulls up just look coy and quote the price. If the cops bug you, you just say you are giving direction, okay, got it?

the ingénue says, i didn’t know you needed to get naked for a pepsi ad…

“Wait, are we putting this on or taking it off?”

“Why is Philippe-Jacques painting? I thought I was supposed to paint you.”

Oh dearie, you’ve got it good – back when I was modeling there were no fireplaces in the studios and the world was a colder place.

It’s that old sly thumb-on-the-nipple manuever.

What’s your bid on this prize on ‘The Price is Right’?

“Come-on! Here’s an extra half-pence to take it all off.”

(with apologies to fans of Sixteen Candles) “Look, Louise, she’s finally gotten her boobies. And they’re so perky!”

“OK. Ready to go hunting for a husband!”

WOMAN ON THE LEFT: Here, let me hold up this droopy one for you.

OLD WOMAN: HA! That’s nothing! Mine sag so much that I wouldn’t have needed that sheet to cover “paradise”.

NUDE: You mean The Gravel Pit, don’t you? OLD WOMAN: WHY I OUGHTA…

ARTIST: MOM! SIS! SETTLE DOWN!!

“Sorry, lady. But when I said ‘let it all hang out’, I thought there was more to ‘hang out’.”

Save time and paint. Forget the artsy kitsch and just paint her on a white background.

Ghislaine Maxwell auditions another one…

“Oh c’mon, perk up! Here take these.”

You know you are a pledge for DELTA GAMMA, now run through cafeteria.

“If she’d spend more time actually practicing that guitar, she wouldn’t have to keep doing these nudie gigs.”

Woman on left:“What do you mean, ‘you don’t feel good’? I assure you, you feel great.”

The first pose (artist’s studio in Rome): 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P-J_van_Bree._La_premi%C3%A8re_pose.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size, oil on panel painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

https://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/07/masterpiece-2759.html 

So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2021/07/21?comments=visible 

has the prior (the blog entry, pointed to by my comment there, has an already published comment that points to the artist info that I used to point to here).

For heaven’s sake girl, be grateful you got this much. It’s your first time and all you had to do was sit.

“Oh, yes. A face mask is just what my outfit needs!”

everyone shielding nude lupin from the bad pottery on wall, you know how pottery talks

As flight attendants, we think you are showing too much skin… did you bring a jumper to cover up with? :>) (Yes, it really happens!)

I told you it was Cinderella! All we had to do was hold her until after midnight! Now pay up!

“I’m sorry, dearie, but as you see, my hand is barely damp. Your interview for the wet-nurse job is over, please dress and go home.

They all promised they’d make her a star / if she gave up the Spanish guitar, / to appear in their flick. / Ecstasy, made her sick, / but that girl became Hedy Lamar!

Busking was considerably more difficult in the 19th century.