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PostPosted: 11/10/14 10:26 pm • # 1 
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Very cool!

Bio of Artist:

Born in 1959, the son of a U.S. Air Force officer and housewife, Scott Wade 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. His great childhood included lessons in art, piano and drums, and he played drums in band starting in 5th grade. His father was an amateur cartoonist and would make coloring books for the neighborhood kids at Christmas-time. Scott loved to draw from an early age, and by the third grade he was receiving praise from his grade-school principal, who hung several of his drawings in her office.

Music and art always held great interest and Scott continued to draw, paint, and play in the band when he moved to Texas in 1973. In high school, Scott won several honors for his drumming, and was awarded the John Philip Sousa Band Award. He was also active in Boy Scouts, eventually becoming an Eagle Scout, and joined his first rock band during his senior year.

Scott attended Texas State University on a partial music scholarship, then after a year decided he didn’t want to be a band director and transferred majors to explore his other big passion, art. He graduated with a BFA in Commercial Art and spent the next decade playing in various local bands, working part-time jobs, illustrating and designing for various clients, composing and performing music in the university theatre department, and generally exploring his creativity. Scott spent 6 months as a mental health worker at the Austin State Hospital, and eventually landed a job as an Arts & Crafts Instructor at a Job Corps Center in his home town of San Marcos, Texas. By this time Scott had overcome his fear of getting sucked into the virtual world of computer graphics and taught himself Photoshop and Illustrator. After leaving the Job Corps, Scott launched into a free-lance career as an illustrator and graphic designer. After his daughter was born, Scott was mister-mom for her first four years, then landed a job designing signs, then migrated into a corporate position. Today, in addition to Dirty Car Art, Scott holds a full-time position as a Senior GUI Designer for Airstrip, in San Antonio, and still manages to play a few music gigs each month.

Scott continually seeks opportunities to bring Dirty Car Art to the world, making appearances at fair, festivals, and corporate events, and contributing his talents to ad and PR campaigns the world over.


http://www.dirtycarart.com/scotts-bio/

About the artwork on this site…

Dirty Car Art wasn’t an “aha” moment. It evolved from living on a long, dirt road, where the family cars were always covered with a fine layer of dust. In this case, limestone and clay from the road base- or “caliche” as the locals call it -of Central Texas, where Scott lives. Having such a great canvas, Scott couldn’t resist drawing on the windows (particularly the rear window, which gets the most dust), much as you might write “wash me,” with a finger drawing a fat line. His early drawings were usually funny faces; his dad was an amateur cartoonist, and Scott developed his own style of cartooning. Eventually though, he became curious; could he expand the visual vocabulary from that fat line? He started experimenting with using a fingernail to get a finer line, the pads of his fingers brushed lightly to create some shading. One day, having finished a popsicle, he took the chewed end of the stick out of his mouth and tried it as a brush. Soon he was trying all his brushes to see what effects they could achieve. He started photographing and emailing the resulting drawings to his friends. One of those emails was forwarded to a local columnist, which resulted in the media wanting to showcase his work, which turned into opportunities to create his special kind of art all over the world!

Gallery:
http://www.dirtycarart.com/grime-scene/


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PostPosted: 11/16/14 2:00 pm • # 2 
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this is very cool. great post


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