George W. Bush

The newest addition to the Presidential Latte Art Series:

Big Bird and Obama

A few notes on how I'm etching these portraits:

• I pretty much always start with a printed copy of the picture I'm trying to draw.
• The portraits are almost always etched in my own personal latte of the day.  It would take a bit too long to draw one and serve it to the customer...  For real drinks to real customers, I frequently do free-pour art (no etching involved) or something like The Bear or the Daisy (neither of which would take more than 20 extra seconds to serve after pouring.
• Most portraits involve pouring a simple white blob into the center of the crema to start, and etching from there.
• It's incredibly easy to mess up facial features of recognizable characters and make it look nothing like them.  This was the disastrous attempt at Obama:

Abraham Lincoln

One of the regulars at the coffee shop suggested that I do more portraits.  Anyone up for the "Presidential Series" of latte art?

Since the Jesus latte I realized that I don't have to white out the entire top of the cup in order to draw portraits; I just have to have a big white portion in the center of the cup.  That way, I can also use the crema from the outer ring to draw with, instead of using leftover crema from a shot glass. 

And yes, I do look at a photo for reference while etching.  I'm not artistic enough to come up with originals of famous people.

Oh, and sorry about the glare in the photo.