IF you’re still out there building a snowman you’re way behind the times when it comes to fashioning something special out of snow.
For the white stuff is bringing out Huddersfield’s arty side with people sculpturing everything from aliens to a sphinx.
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Three years ago Ray Laverick and his son Adam sculpted a giant Father Christmas out of snow.
This year the 54-year-old builder decided something warmer and brighter was needed to inspire thoughts of hotter climes, so on Monday he moulded this magnificent sphinx single-handedly.
Ray, a father-of-four, of Ayton Road, Longwood, said: “I was just clearing the drive and thought I would do something.
“In 2009 I built a snowman but this year I thought I would create an igloo, but then I just got cracking on this sphinx.
“My kids normally help me but they are all grown up now and have left home.
“We have had quite a few people admiring it and even one or two taking pictures of it during the night. It took me two-and-a-half hours to complete it. I used a saw and then a knife to chisel the face. I’m not really artistic. I never studied art at school or anything like that, but I am quite pleased with it.
“I did have a bit of difficulty with the face – I didn’t think I was going to be able to get it right but it came good in the end.”
