Unbelievable Drawings on Dirty Cars by Scott Wade – with Exclusive Interview
Scott Wade ( DirtyCarArt ) was born in 1959, the son of a U.S. Air Force officer and housewife. He spent most of his childhood at the Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, Co., where his father taught history and later became the faculty executive.
While in Colorado, Scott received lessons in art, piano and drums, and played drums in band starting in 5th grade. Music and art always held great interest for Scott, and he continued to draw and play in the band when he moved to Texas in 1973.
Eventually the desire to make a better living for the family took its toll, and Scott found regular employment at a sign company designing signs, banners and decals. Soon an opportunity came along to try his hand in the corporate world, and he took a job designing graphical user interfaces, which he has been doing for 11 years.
During this time, he discovered and developed his “Dirty Car Art”, which has brought him world-wide recognition.
We have the great pleasure of introducing Scott and his amazing artwork to the PxlEyes community today, along with an exclusive interview he kindly agreed to give for us. Valuable advice, cool videos and an amazing showcase of 70 images come along!
Q: Hello there Scott! We are pleased to have you here today, at pxleyes.com community. Please tell us a few words about yourself.
“Mona Lisa/Starry Night”
Q: Your art is really special and a thing that not many artists think about. How did it all start?
“Elf’nt Ears”
Q: Do you also paint/draw with traditional materials, like canvas and oil paints?
“Uncle Albert”
Q: Do you use anything special to preserve your works on car windows? Like…something that keeps the dust together? Or how does it exactly work? LOL
“The Nag”
Q: What is it that you love the most in this world?
“Let’s Get Kinky in Austin”
Q: A little piece of advice please for anyone who’d like to become your “follower”.
Inside Edition: Deborah
A:
Im 52, a GUI Designer and free-lance illustrator-graphic artist, and drummer for the legendary Texas accordion king, Ponty Bone.
I live in lovely Wimberley, Texas with my beautiful, wonderful and talented wife Robin, and awesome daughter Marley.
“Mona Lisa/Starry Night”
Q: Your art is really special and a thing that not many artists think about. How did it all start?
A:
Living on a long dirt road for over 20 years, the cars were always dirty. Wash’em, and they’d just be dirty again in a couple days. Plus, living on an aquifer, we’re always wanting to conserve water.
The dust from the road base here in central Texas is very light-colored and makes great contrast with the shadowed interior of a vehicle.
Who can resist doing something – writing “wash me,” “I wish my wife was this dirty,” or drawing in such a ready-made medium?
I would draw characters – my father was a great amature cartoonist – and try to get some shading by brushing the pads of my fingers lightly, and started refining the fat line of the finger by using fingernails, twigs, whatever I’d find laying around.
The real revelation came when I was eating a popsicle and had chewed the end of the stick as I was drawing one day. I took it out of my mouth, looked at it, and gave it a try. It was really cool, sort of gave a cross-hatching effect.
I went to my studio and got a variety of brushes and a rubber paint-shaper, and soon developed the techniques I use today.
“Elf’nt Ears”
Q: Do you also paint/draw with traditional materials, like canvas and oil paints?
A:
You bet. I particularly enjoy acrylics and house paint on a variety of surfaces, and do a lot of drawing with a ballpoint when I’m sitting in meetings. I also love to sculpt in a variety of media.
“Uncle Albert”
Q: Do you use anything special to preserve your works on car windows? Like…something that keeps the dust together? Or how does it exactly work? LOL
A:
The work is impermanent by nature. It’ll hold up fine going down the highway, but the first hard rain and it will be gone.
This is one of the things I love about Dirty Car Art. It reminds me to be in the moment and let go of the piece once it’s done, which seems to me a good lesson for living.
So although I’ve been offered many suggestions as to how I might preserve the work, I’m just not interested.
I much prefer a “natural canvas,” that is, one where the glass is coated over several days of driving on a dirt road.
I love the way it works, it’s not as regular as the “prepared canvas,” and it will often suggest a drawing by it’s ideosyncracies.
But when I demonstrate at an event, or do something for the media, there’s usually not an opportunity to work with a natural canvas, so I developed a way to prep the car very quickly using a light coating of oil and blowing on the dirt with a blowdryer or garden duster.
It works pretty well and enables a really nice range of values.
“The Nag”
Q: What is it that you love the most in this world?
A:
Being alive; I think it all boils down to that.
“Let’s Get Kinky in Austin”
Q: A little piece of advice please for anyone who’d like to become your “follower”.
A:
Well, first of all, don’t follow me. I didn’t “discover” this art form by following anyone. My advice to all artists is just to allow everything to inspire you and to follow your own insticts.
And really important: have fun!
Friend in Need
Happy Holidays
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Refining the Edge
Kim & Kelly
Rapture of Pop-N-Fresh
Two Thumbs Up
Him & Her
The Birth Of Venus
Hill Country Steinway
Texas Women
Pet Fest
Pet Fest: Detail
FreeTail
What About Bob?
The Dirty Car Artist – Scott Wade
What About Bob?: Detail
Hello, Deer
Cpl. Robert Zane Childress, Iraq
Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho: Detail
Escape: to the Beach
Escape: to the Desert
Escape: to the Mountains
Drifter
Mt. Rushmore
CMT Cars
Hank
Inside Edition: American Gothic
Wild Flowers
Longhorns
Roadrunner & Coyote
Lady Bird
Mitsubishi Ad: Car 1
Mitsubishi Ad: Car 2
“Montañozo” Official Music Video – Grupo Fantasma
Mitsubishi Ad: Car 3
Horror
Willie: Back
Willie: Side
Zoom
Los Mariachis
Richard & Judy
The Hay Wain
Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
Ken & Sheree
Denise Crosby
Sheree Signs
The Great Blue
Under a Wave
On the Road: Windshield
On the Road: Driver’s Side
On the Road: Rear Window
Luminaria1
Folklorico Dancers
San Antonio River Bridge
Dirty Car Art
DDF_inside
Vancouver
DCA_Decatur_BurlWill_sm
DCA_Decatur_Cindy_sm
3Stooges_sm
Laurel&Hardy_sm
MarxBrothers_sm
Spanky&Darla
WillKateScott
Buckwheat&Alfalfa
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