Chicago Painter Follows Naked Palin With Naked Blago

A Chicago artist has made Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) his latest subject in a series of nude portraits of governors.

Bruce Elliot depicts Blagojevich, arrested last week on corruption charges, as an inmate in a federal prison, reports the Chicago Tribune.

In the painting, the governor is seen standing without clothes and with his front toward jail cell bars. His orange jump suit is around his ankles. A prison guard with a rubber glove and a menacing look stands near Blagojevich. The portrait is called “The Cavity Search.”

Elliot’s previous governor painting was one of a nude, gun-toting Sarah Palin (R-Alaska). The paintings are displayed at his wife’s bar in Chicago’s North Side, which is also the part of city where Blagojevich lives.

“If I did Palin naked, I should do Blagojevich naked,” Elliot told the Tribune. “That would only be fair.”

Elliot added that he paints only for fun and that he doesn’t get much recognition.

“I guess I fit in with Van Gogh and those guys who were not appreciated in their lifetime,” he said.