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The Edible Masterpieces of Confectionery... They might look like common oil paintings, to the untrained eye, but these are actually edible masterpieces created with chocolate and food colouring, by artist Jean Zaun. 57-year-old Jean Zaun has always had a passion for oil painting, but working in her family's chocolate shop, in downtown Lebanon, Pensylvania, she started getting bored and started experimenting with chocolate as an art medium. "I was literally 'stuck' in a puddle of chocolate eight hours a day." This was a coping mechanism to alleviate the boredom of being a candy coater and also remind myself that I was an artist" Jean says about her beginnings as a chocolate painter. After 22 years of working in a chocolate shop, Jean Zaun has now dedicated herself completely to painting in oil, pastels and chocolate. Using white, dark and milk chocolate, food colouring, sugars and confectionery glaze, she is able to reproduce famous paintings like Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Vincent Van Gogh's Self Portrait, or Edvard Munch's The Scream, as well as create her own original works. Mrs  Zaun works up to five days on a single painting, after which she encases it in a chocolate frame and covers it with a special glaze. Although they are made from the world's most popular sweet, Jean Zaun says her chocolate paintings are to be consumed by the eye, not the stomach. "They are works of art in their own right and are to be kept and cherished as keepsakes", she adds. That's easier said than done, especially when you have a sweet tooth and a chocolate painting is the only sugary delight in the house. Her works have sold for up to $1,440, and they can be found in the private collections of people like Sharon Osbourne or Al Roker, as well as in museums across America.

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