British artist Sam Cox, known as Mr. Doodle (or “Mister Drawing”, in free translation), he completed his greatest work of art: he covered his own house in Kent, in the English countryside, with each room inspired by thematic cartoons.
At the age of 28, Mr. Doodle has dreamed of designing his new home – worth around US$1.5 million or R$7.9 million – since childhood, he admitted on social media.
“I want to thank my mom and dad because ever since they let me draw on my bedroom walls when I was a kid, I’ve wanted to live in a property covered in self-created characters,” he joked on Instagram. Then, declare the end of the property.
For this effort, he used 900 liters of white paint, 401 cans of black spray paint, 286 bottles of black ink and 2,296 black pens. The entire painting process of each of the six bedrooms, in addition to seven common areas such as the living room, kitchen, bathrooms – nothing was invented, even the stove received drawings on the burners – took two years.
According to The Guardian, Cox doesn’t live in the apartment yet, but plans to move in soon with his wife Alena Cox. Model drawing by hands. He has even painted the car he shares with his partner, who is also an artist and used to paint his creations.
According to the illustrator, there have been no complaints from neighbors so far, but the former owners – when they found out he was the buyer – would have begged him not to paint on the walls. Not only was the wish unfulfilled, Mr. Doodle went further and gave new definitions to home appliances that no longer work.
Cox told BBC Breakfast host Tim Muffett that the first room she finished was her bedroom – and waking up there was “like being in heaven for her”.
To document the entire transformation, 1,857 photographs were taken of each part of the house between September 2020 and September 2022 and then stitched together into a stop-motion video. See:
Styled by American pop icon Keith Haring, Cox rose to fame in recent years after working with MTV! In 2017, it created four statues that decorated the European Music Awards.
Soon, his works started fetching high prices at auctions. According to Architecture Digest, his 2019 “Spring” canvas fetched nearly $1 million at the Tokyo Chuo auction house at the time. In 2020, he became the fourth most successful artist under the age of 40 “under the hammer”.
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