The Snowmakers

As I was going up a chairlift on a ski mountain, I passed by the snow guns making snow and shooting it out onto the slope.  The sun was behind it and created a beautiful effect as the snow filtered the light rays.  I tried to look closely at the effect each time I passed the guns.  Upon returning to my studio, I painted this from that memory.   I added the figures and thought of them as sort of elf-like persons  or almost like the sandman.  They feverishly work at making snow while no one really notices them.