When Snow Becomes Art (9 Photos)

Everything here is made of snow

A bear hugs a tree, a mailbox grows a face, and a steam locomotive stands still in the snow. These 9 examples of snow art range from playful front-yard sculptures to enormous carvings at Harbin’s winter shows.

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🚂 The Snow Train — Harbin, China 🇨🇳

A steam locomotive carved from snow, wheels and all, at the Harbin winter festival in 2009. The person by the front shows how big it is.

💡 Snow Fact: Harbin’s carvers shape the snow with saws, shovels, augers and sandpaper, according to Smithsonian Magazine.

📷 Photo: Rincewind42 from China / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

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🦶 Two Feet of Snow

Someone heard the forecast say two feet of snow and took it literally. The toes are the best part.

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🏛️ Venus in the Street — Alcalá de Henares, Spain 🇪🇸

A headless, armless Venus de Milo in a snowy street at night, taller than the car parked beside her. Two neighbors with no art background, Jaime and Daniel, built it in the Parque del Ángel neighborhood of Alcalá de Henares, near Madrid, after Storm Filomena in January 2021, Time Out Madrid reported. They took their time on the drapery.

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🤸 The Headstand

Real boots on top, scarf in the snow. The coal smile is upside down too, which makes it work.

💡 Snow Fact: Snow sticks best near 0°C (32°F), when the crystals melt a little and clump together, Scientific American explains.

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🐻 The Bear Hug

A snow bear wraps both arms around a tree trunk and holds on. It looks like it has been there all winter.

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📬 The Mailbox Monster

The mailbox became the mouth, and two branches became angry arms. Bills go in at your own risk.

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🦉 The Impostor Owl

On the left, a real snowy owl. On the right, a snow copy with amber eyes and a red beak. The real one doesn’t look impressed.

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🐈‍⬛ The One-Eyed Twin

The black cat has one eye, so the snow cat got one too. A small detail that turns a snow cat into a portrait.

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🎶 The Flute Player — Harbin, China 🇨🇳

A giant calm face plays a bamboo flute while a flock of snow sheep walks past below. Photographed at the Harbin snow festival in January 2010, under a hard blue sky.

📷 Photo: Dayou_X / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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👴 A Face in the Snowbank — By Arkadiusz Andrejkow in Sanok, Poland 🇵🇱

A man’s face sprayed straight onto a snow mound, bare branches poking through the top. Arkadiusz Andrejkow is a mural painter from Sanok. When heavy snow came in December 2022, he used the snow as a “white sheet” while waiting for spring.

💡 Artist Fact: Andrejkow was born in Sanok in 1985 and still lives there, In Your Pocket notes.

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