Don’t Wash It (10 Photos)

A gorilla on a car window, a skeleton along a truck and mountains across the rear glass: these ten artworks turn dust and road grime into portraits and scenes that a car wash could erase.

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🦍 Gorilla Window — By Nikita Golubev in Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺

Nikita Golubev draws pale fur and dark eyes in the dust coating the glass. The rear wiper sits just below its chin.

📷 Photo by Artem Ionin.

💡 Nerd Fact: Golubev says he began making his Dirty Car Art in 2017, turning dusty trucks into temporary street drawings.

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🦴 A Skeleton on the Road — By Nikita Golubev

Golubev’s skeleton drawing runs the length of the truck, from a tapering tail to an oversized skull. A faint city skyline rises above its back.

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🏔️ Escape to the Mountains — By Scott Wade

Snowy peaks and dark trees fill this Ford Escape’s rear window. Wade made Escape to the Mountains as one of three drawings on rented Ford Escapes for a proposed print advertising campaign. Fine changes in the dust create the reflected mountains and the distant ridges.

💡 Nerd Fact: Wade told Make that he started with his finger and a popsicle stick, then tried brushes. He found he could work with dust much as he would with charcoal on paper.

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🚀 Stormtrooper Corridor — By James Gibson

Ceiling lights and rows of helmets make a corridor appear to extend behind the van doors. In his post on January 1, 2018, Gibson said he drew the scene on a friend’s van.

💡 Nerd Fact: Gibson was working as a gas heating engineer in Essex when he told the Press Association in 2018 that his van drawings took around four to five hours each. He described the art as a hobby for stress relief and said work commitments left little time for advertising offers.

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👀 Faces at the Windows — By Nikita Golubev

Six faces crowd into two drawn windows. Hands rest along the lower edges, making the metal doors look as though people are peering out from inside.

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👽 Xenomorph — By Ruddy Muddy and Damsel Dragonfly Art

The creature’s long skull spans both doors, with teeth and ribs picked out in the grime. Ruddy Muddy and Damsel Dragonfly Art both signed this Xenomorph drawing.

💡 Nerd Fact: Ruddy Muddy is Ricky Minns. On his website, he traces the idea back to 2007, when he drew on his van to cover rude words his children had written on it.

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⚔️ Battlefield in the Dust — By James Gibson

Soldiers fill the lower half of the doors, with a hazy battlefield receding behind them. Gibson described using pointed cardboard and a toothbrush in a 2018 interview.

More: Dirty Cars Turned Into Art (18 Photos)

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🗿 Mount Rushmore — By Scott Wade

Four presidential faces fill the curved glass, with darker dust defining the rocks and trees around them.

💡 Nerd Fact: At the original Mount Rushmore, dynamite did about 90% of the carving. Blasting stopped with just three to six inches of rock remaining above the intended surface; workers then drilled closely spaced holes so the remaining granite could be broken away.

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🛡️ A Resting Warrior — By Nikita Golubev

A warrior sits with legs stretched across the doors, a round shield at one side and a sword at the other. Pale marks in the dirt trace the armor against the dark truck.

More: Dirt Made Into Art (10 Photos)

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🎤 This Song Is Called Filthy — By Ruddy Muddy and Damsel Dragonfly Art

“This song is called Filthy, just like this van.” The portrait takes one door and the punchline takes the other, above the Love West Norfolk lettering.

More: 22 Amazing Dirty Van Artworks

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