Snow Art II Sonja Hinrichsen

Using snowshoes artist Sonja Hinrichsen, with the help of 5 volunteers, created these snow drawings at Rabbit’s Ear Pass, a lofty mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains. Sonja Hinrichsen had previously created snow drawings at upstate New York, Colorado and Hayden in the past few years.

Hinrichsen, 44, hails from south-west Germany. She landed in California in 1999 for graduate school at the San Francisco Art Institute. Snow drawings first crept into Hinrichsen’s inspiration in 2009 while working at the Anderson Ranch near Aspen. She was inspired by animal tracks left in otherwise unmarked and massive canvasses of snow laid out before her in high mountain meadows.

She created her first spirals on Lake Tahoe. Over time, she started pre-empting her drawings with sketches on paper. But concepts often changed because her effort is a direct response to the environment, and snow behaves differently depending upon its depth, moisture and texture.

(See more at  Large Scale Snow Drawings by Sonja Hinrichsen | Amusing Planet)

Snow Art I Simon Beck

Artist Simon Beck creates amazing pieces of snow art by walking in the snow wearing raquettes (snowshoes). Each artwork is typically the size of three soccer fields and takes 2 days to complete. The Oxford-educated self-employed map maker typically walks for about 5 to 9 hours or until he gets too tired, using a headlamp if it gets dark first.

Most of the designs are simple geometric figures, or figures generated by repeating simple rules at different scales. Beck plots the design into his canvas of snow in the French Alps using a sighting compass with distances measured either by pace counting or string.

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