Aikshrees Kanduraja

And then he gets a request for another.

And another.

He's 18 Mitch McConnells deep before he stops to catch his breath.

Were those Mitch McConnells, in your opinion, were they good?

I can't think of a single Mitch McConnell I ever did that was good.

But they were good enough.

He sold the first small one for $25, the next one for $50.

Eventually, he settled on $500 for 24 by 36 inch paintings.

Pablo is becoming a prolific painter.

He paints Nancy Pelosi, Ilhan Omar, other politicians.

He takes a commission for a lobbyist's dog.

Just by his own force of personality, he's making it happen.

At the State of the Union, Pablo set up an easel in Statuary Hall that's overlooking where all the members of Congress and the Supreme Court justices pass through.

And Pablo, in his white painter's coat with headphones on, he captured the scene on canvas live.

C-SPAN interviewed him as he painted.

And then, late last year, in December, he got a phone call from a friend's number, someone who used to be a policy advisor in the executive branch.

I picked up and I was just like, hey man, what do you need?

I'm kind of busy.

Here on the other end of the line...

hey, Pablo, you're a great artist.