Alena, an artist herself, often collaborates with her husband, such as on a doodled flag of Ukraine in the shape of a heart, which the couple sold prints of to raise money for UNICEF’s efforts to support children in Ukraine, Alena’s home country.Ī post shared by Mrs Doodle it came to the mansion, though, Cox refused his wife’s offers to help him doodle. The “we” he is referring to includes his wife, Alena, who goes by Mrs. “We were forced to be inside, and my main project was so easy to access because we live there.” Pandemic restrictions and lockdowns left the artist with much more time at home than he was used to, which “helped accidentally,” he tells the Washington Post. Doodle, has dreamed of living in a doodled mansion since he was a teenager.Īfter painting the mansion’s interior and exterior white, Cox first put pen to wall in September 2020. Doodle is living in that dream.Ĭox, also known as Mr. One decade-and, per the Washington Post, 238 gallons of white paint, 286 bottles of black drawing paint, 401 cans of black spray paint and 2,296 pen nibs-later, Mr. “This has been my dream since I was 18,” Cox tells the Sunday Times. It was the first step toward fulfilling an adolescent wish to reside in a house entirely covered in doodles. With the money he made from his art, Cox was able to buy his Kent mansion for about $1.5 million a few years ago.
In 2020, he set his own auction record by selling a large-scale drawing called Spring at Tokyo Chuo Auction for around $1 million.
The Haring-meets-SpongeBob works have fetched Cox large sums of money at auctions. Per Susannah Butter of the Sunday Times, the young artist acknowledges the similarities in their work, but says that his primary inspiration “still goes back to when I was kid watching ‘ Tom and Jerry,’ ‘ Wacky Races’ and ‘ SpongeBob SquarePants,’ and video games like ‘ Crash Bandicoot.’” Doodle, has turned heads in the art world with his graphic doodle art, which is reminiscent of the work of 1980s graffiti-adjacent artist Keith Haring. In reality, the project took nearly two years.Ĭox, who also goes by the artist alias Mr.
The video, which clocks in at just over two minutes, is a time lapse consisting of 1,857 photographs, Cox tells the Washington Post’s Adela Suliman. I doodled my house /hHhNvqKPqa- Mr Doodle October 2, 2022 Nothing-not the pillowcases, not the stovetop, not the television-is left untouched. Hit play on a video that Sam Cox, 28, shared to social media over the weekend and you’ll see how the English artist covered a 13-room stark white mansion in floor-to-ceiling doodles.
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