When the dust gets thick on the back window of his Mini Cooper, Scott Wade uses it as a canvas to create temporary works of art. Among his creations was a copy of C.M. Coolidge's 'A Friend in Need,' better known as dogs.

Wade used his finger and other implements to etch this homage to Vincent Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' and Leonardo DA Vinci's 'Mona Lisa.'

Wade lives off the unpaved Roadrunner Road north of San Marcos, which dusts the back windows of his car and gives him the canvases to create his own works of art.

A portrait of Kinky Friedman on the back of the Mazda driven by Wade's wife, Robin Wood, was featured on the Gubernatorial candidate's Web site.



A collage of wildlife decorates the Mini Cooper's window.

Wade's creations attract admirers wherever he goes.

Who needs a frost-covered window when you've got road dust to create a Christmas scene?

A gimme-capped John Kelso was the subject of one window portrait.

Besides his finger, Wade uses traditional art tools, such as paintbrushes, and unconventional ones, like a chewed Popsicle stick, to make his drawings.

Wade takes pride in his creations, but he knows that with one good shower, his work will just wash away.

Skull Clock

Driftwood Horses

Pencils Creativity

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

(Dee Hock )

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right, 1994

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

(George Lois)

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.

John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

(Norman Podhoretz)

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight. Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992 Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams (1957)

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens. (Stella Terrill Mann)