How to Create a Jesus on a Tortilla
Creating miraculous images on tortillas, tacos and tostadas is an art that I have spent years practicing. And yet, like a Buddhist monk creating an intricate mandala, I am always learning. With every new tortilla comes greater wisdom, greater understanding. Should I have used more browning sauce? Should I have set the heat gun on a higher temperature? Should my gin and tonic have had more lime, or should I be drinking martinis instead? These are the questions all great artists ask themselves.
But to spare you the long journey over the prickly cactus of art, I will reveal the steps taken to create a Miraculous Jesus on a Tortilla.
- Step 1: Mix some Kitchen Bouquet browning sauce and Burnt Umber acrylic paint.
- Step 2: Apply to a flour tortilla.
- Step 3: Finish up the image. Have a drink.
- Step 4: Use a heat gun to burn the tortilla and brown the sauce
- Step 5: Crap, you burned the tortilla. Have another drink, feed the burned tortilla to the squirrels.
- Step 6: Draw another picture of Jesus on the tortilla.
- Step 7: Use the heat gun again. This time, be careful.
- Step 8: Now that’s a Jesus! Have another drink.
