Snowflakes

100 Days of Art
Written By Stacie Humpherys

This week’s theme: Winter / Today’s Daily Art Prompt: Snowflake / Medium: Watercolor / Daily Art Count: 15/100

I learned SO MUCH about snowflakes today while researching reference material for snowflakes. This amount of structure and intricacy at this scale is so fascinating to me… it’s like each one was carefully designed and built by a craftsman. And then that craftsman promptly broke the mold, never to create a snowflake like that ever again. Crazy right?

Some MINDBLOWING facts about snowflakes 🤯

  • “It is unlikely that any two snowflakes are alike due to the estimated 10^19 (10 quintillion) water molecules which make up a typical snowflake.” -Wikipedia 🤯🤯🤯

  • Attempts to find identical snowflakes by photographing thousands of them found the variety of snowflakes we know about today.

  • “About a million billion snowflakes fall each second, averaged over a typical year. That's enough snow to make one snowman for every person on earth every ten minutes.” - snowcrystals.com

  • Most snowflakes are built around the hexagon (also called six-fold radial symmetry) because ice has a hexagonal crystalline structure. Very occasionally, 12- branched snowflakes are observed.

Join me as I work to make art for 100 days, following the daily art prompts inside Bonnie Christine’s Flourish Membership. Each week has a theme with 7 prompt words within that theme. Flourish is a monthly membership for artists and designers, opening in May and October of each year. Want to learn more? Check it out at surfacepatterndesigners.com/flourish.

Stacie Humpherys

I’m an engineer and illustrator living in the Rocky Mountain West, specializing in surface pattern design and illustration. I love spending every spare minute in the outdoors with my husband Greg and my two doggos, Oliver and Eva.

https://pineandfeather.com
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