Sometimes the most interesting concepts come from a combination of seemingly disparate themes.

For this cake, my client was hosting a party for one of her colleagues who was just appointed to be a judge. She asked that the design combine a reference to the judicial appointment and life on a farm because the judge and his wife love animals and live on a farm.  

Several brainstorming sessions later, I decided to model the cake after Grant Wood's famous American Gothic painting, only with the judge holding the scales of justice rather than a pitchfork.

Both characters were hand-sculpted out of modelling chocolate and gumpaste.