![]() ![]() 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. Picture: smithsonianmag: Gareth Fuller / PA Images “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. According to smithsonianmag, Cox, who also goes by the artist alias Mr. ![]()
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