“I always looked at skiing as my canvas for creativity,” he explains, but now he’s drawing lines on more than just mountains. As a kid, he was always drawing but ultimately leaned into skiing as his main passion. Like any creative, he’s still growing and experimenting. “Even to this day, it’s still strange to call myself an artist,” Benchetler bluntly admits. Right: Elemental Dimensions is a piece Benchetler made in collaboration with Skye Walker.Īrtist, Benchetler is still in awe of how far he's come. Left: Chris Benchetler working on one of his paintings. “It can be a difficult canvas at times, especially having it split across two skis and accounting for bindings-but it’s a fun challenge,” he says. By using art as his bargaining chip, he not only secured a sponsorship with the brand but was given complete control over the aesthetic of his new pro-model ski. At the time, K2 was setting the standard for ski graphics with internal artist and designer Ryan Schmies, whose intricate and illustrative style elevated top-sheets into rideable works of art.Ītomic was still new to the freeskiing scene, and Benchetler saw this as an open door. RELATED: Watch 'Fire On the Mountain' - A film by the Grateful Dead and Chris Benchetlerīenchetler negotiated with art. Intent on getting him in their athlete lineup, they asked what it would take to convince him to jump ship from K2 to Atomic. In 2008 the brand approached him with a proposition. But this larger than life illustration was more than a doodle for Benchetler it served as the graphic for his first-ever ski design with Atomic. There’s even a wooly mammoth surfing on the bottom of the illustration-a subtle nod to his home ski hill Mammoth Mountain. The mayhem of Tokyo is translated into neon colors and characters full of emotion. A post shared by Chris Benchetler on at 7:16am PSTįresh off his very first trip to Japan, Chris Benchetler’s imagination went wild as he illustrated the things that caught his eye.
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