PORTLAND: An Oregon artist who used menstrual blood to paint an image of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said she would sell posters as well as the original, created in response to remarks by the billionaire about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.

The portrait by Portland-based painter and activist Sarah Levy drew worldwide attention as Republican candidates prepared for their second debate, to be aired on CNN on Wednesday. It was after the first debate that Trump declared that Kelly, a moderator who had questioned him pointedly about some unflattering comments about women, “had blood coming out of her wherever.”

“It was outrageous to me that someone running for president of the United States of America, not just some small-state governor or a random rich guy, but president, could say what he did and still be in the race,” Levy said in a statement. “To think that he could talk this way about the basic functioning of a woman's reproductive system, not just to avoid tough political questions, but to insult Kelly's intelligence, and effectively all women's, was infuriating and needed to be called out,” she said.

Levy said she painted the image of Trump, which portrays him in shades of red with white teeth, using her own menstrual blood, a paintbrush and a tampon. The posters will be sold for USD 20 each and the original will be auctioned next week, she said.