Peter Anton

Peter Anton may just be my favorite artist of all time. There are plenty other artists I love and admire, but Peter takes the cake, or more appropriately, the chocolate.
What he essentially does is create giant fake replicas of chocolates (he also does candy, donuts, ice cream, etc. but mostly chocolate.)
I admit that I have a sort of obsession with replicas or representations of food. I love fake food, stickers of food, drawings of food, miniatures of food, and so on and so forth. I don't like these things in an obsessive "all I want to do is eat all the time" sort of way, I am just fascinated by realistic representations of these things because food is such a common thing that everyone is familiar with.
Food in itself is an art, whether through the process of making it, or it's presentation, so these sculptures of food are like art within art: double bonus. There is also something attractive about these representations of food in that they will last forever, whereas real food has a very short life span. He uses things like wood, plaster, and shellac to create works that look good enough to eat.

So this is why I find Peter Anton's art so amazing, not only are his sculptures beautiful and accurate depictions of an already beautiful subject matter, but they are also sometimes 100x larger than the original. I highly encourage any and everyone to check out his website (it's simple and easy to navigate with tons of pictures of his work, not artsy and empty) because I believe he is one of the few artists anyone would love. http://www.peteranton.com