Vegetarian Star

When vegan artist Peter Max wasn’t dining at Candle Cafe in his neighborhood, he was busy putting 44 faces on President Barack Obama.

Max has painted portraits of the U.S.’s last five presidents, and to celebrate Obama as the 44th president, Max painted 44 different portraits.

He used numerous photos provided to him by CBS and began working before the Christmas Holiday season.

He debuted the portraits CBS’ “The Early Show” last month.

This is not the first of a series of portraits Max has completed. After the 9/11 tragedy, he took nine months to paint all 343 faces of the firefighters who died that day for the American Heroes’ project, a gift to the firefighters’ families.

A portion of the money generated from the Obama portraits will go towards orphanages, according to Max.

Source: La Jolla Light

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“I’m 68, but if you saw me you’d think I’m 45. That’s because I’ve been a vegan for eight years. My wife and I walk every night two miles from this vegan restaurant home. I eat there about four times a week. Something about being a vegan; it’s life-prolonging.”

—Artist Peter Max, in an interview. The vegan eatery he walks from, Candle Cafe, is the casual dining sister restaurant to Candle 79, one of the top eight vegetarian restaurants in the country.

He has great admiration for Dr. Joel Fuhrman, the vegan doctor who influenced singer Alanis Morissette to recently go vegan.

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