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. This article was originally published on NBCNews.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.
“We could work together and create a colorful creation, or something new or something different, so watch this space.” “In the future we’ve got plans for maybe projects on the scale of this,” he said, gesturing at the mansion. Doodle likes to color in my doodles so we sometimes work together on canvases or big pieces of work,” Cox said. They collaborate on some projects, with Alena introducing color to Cox’s hitherto monochrome creations. He has since recovered, and now has the support of his Ukrainian-born wife, Alena, 32, who is also an artist. “I went through a wave of hallucinations and delusions from thinking that I was speaking to God to being hired to doodle all over Donald Trump’s wall,” Cox wrote on his Facebook page shortly afterward. Success, however, took its toll in 2020, when Cox said he was hospitalized for six weeks owing to stress brought on by the administrative side of his work. Sam Cox, doodle house (Mo Abbas / NBC News)
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