His nose is not a carrot or a coal, but a microscopic bead of platinum. Yet he is, undeniably, a snowman. Just like that, except in the National Physics Laboratory in England, with a lone bacterium.

This magical scene of a little girl stealing the nose off a snowman is the latest work of 'Pavement Picasso' Julian Beever, who creates 3D images with chalk.

The snowman — the classic kind, three balls of snow with sticks for arms — was maybe 2½ feet tall, chest-high to the 4-year-old twins who had built it. And it was several times taller than ...

This magical scene of a little girl stealing the nose off a snowman is the latest work of 'Pavement Picasso' Julian Beever, who creates 3D images with chalk.