It’s possible this is the most intriguing food-as-art I’ve seen yet!  San Francisco artist Liz Hickok sculpts, molds and casts scale models of urban city landscapes using Jell-O.
There’s a lengthy process to get these installations ready for their eventual decay.  She tells on her website that the installations can become quite uncontrollable and as you can imagine the Jello-O is susceptible to temperature and movement so the sculptures are often done in her studio...

Roberts Birze has a neat set called scattered images in which he creates surreal panoramas by combining a large number of digital photographs taken of a particular scene.
The lovely scattered image art is a project where photographs are cut into many fragments and then put together to create a unique fragmented effect.
Creating a scattered image panorama might be great as a present for someone if you were to have it printed out and framed...

Marco Zamora is an artist from California whose unrealistic freestyle paintings and drawings have became pretty appreciated in the world of arts.
He works as a graphic artist but his true passion is painting which he does in his free time but it might be considered as his second job. He paints anything he find interesting and inspirational. His paintings are mostly done in gray-scale way but he uses to add some colorful details to some of his paintings which make them look pretty fancy.