Why do I use browning sauce to paint pictures on tortillas?  Because when you apply heat to it, it burns real good, yes it does.  It gets darker faster than the rest of the tortilla, so that browning sauce turns a well-defined, burned image on the tortilla.

This demo gives you some close up views of what happens when you heat the stuff up, using the man who heated up the Cold War - Ronald Reagan...

To mentally prepare myself for the portrait of a man whose presidency defined America in the 1980's, I went through a strict purification regimen.  Every day began with the memorization of Pac-Man patterns, followed by two hours of listening to The Cure and Adam and the Ants.  Afternoons were spent watching the entire first seasons of Cagney & Lacey and Scarecrow & Mrs. King.  Evenings were spent perfecting my moonwalk.  I wore shoes but no socks, kept my collar turned up, and incorporated quotes from John Hughes films into every conversation.  I went through 37 cans of hair spray.

 After a week of this, I felt I was ready to begin.

The first step, as always, is to draw a picture of the subject with a mix of browning sauce and burnt umber acrylic paint.  I used my Artograph Super Prism opaque projector to project the image onto the tortilla, then just traced the lines.