Author: Steve Melcher

Harald Slott-Møller, Danish

At Edwardian Era Picnics, the Sack Race Was Traditionally Followed By a Tug of Salad, 1917

Oil on canvas

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French

On Days When Glenn Was Too Busy To Fit In Guitar Practice AND a Yoga Class, He Tried To Save Time By Multi-Tasking, 1757

Oil on canvas

Haddon Sundblom, American

Knowing He Was Going To Have To Hit 5 Billion Houses in Under 8 Hours in the Middle of the Freaking Night, Santa Asked His Elves To Score Him Some Coke. Stupid Elves. 1940

Illustration

Jiaming Wang, Chinese

Portrait of the Artist’s Girlfriend, Shelley, Date Unknown

Oil on canvas

Rembrandt Peale, American

Darn It. Ed Knew He Had Forgotten Something On His To Do List. Pay the Electric Bill!, 1805-08

Oil on canvas

Herbert Arnould Olivier, British

“No Sir, That’s Not a Bombing Target. That’s Just Some Caramel Drizzle. Sorry — I Was Working On This at Starbucks,” ca. 1944

Oil on canvas

Gawen Hamilton, Scottish

“Oh, My Mistake, Sir. When You Commissioned This, I Thought You Said You Liked Big BOATS and You Could Not Lie,” ca. 1735

Oil on canvas

John Hamilton Mortimer, English

Jack Soon Discovered That the Problem With Playing Rock, Paper, Scissors Against Yourself Was You Wound Up With a Lot of Ties, 1767

Oil on canvas