So – Snow Sculpture is mostly about the artistic process – so I thought it would be cool to detail the process as best I could in this dealio.

Many people ask us where we get the ideas from. Usually its Adrian, Brooke and I just bouncing ideas off each other. Last year in Breckenridge one of our lliasons, Emily, was hanging out rooting us on and asked us that very question. So we told her, but we also asked her what she thought would make a good snow sculpture. She responded with “A person getting blown by the wind.”

Adrian and I both lit right up – “Hey – that is a good idea…” 

The next submission we needed was Breck ’09 – so we talked about what to include in the sketch.

Then Adrian and Brooke drove up from Beantown together and they met me at the Flatbreads and this sketch was pretty much done – Adrian finalized it last time he and the fam were up and we were having coffee.

I then scanned it, took it apart and manipulated it slightly, raising the guy up in the air a bit in the front. I believe once we start the modeling phase the dynamics will insist on him being higher in the front… but we’ll see…  

So that’s how it starts. We need to make a model now – a scale model (1 inch on the sculpture equals 1 foot on the model) – and then see how it changes from the sketch. We are supposed to stay pretty close! But again… we’ll see…