Home is where the art is.
World-renowned artist Sam Cox spent the past two years doodling every inch of his home with his signature — and stunning — black-and-white drawings.
Made up of six bedrooms, the neo-Georgian mansion is covered head to toe with the eye-catching works that earned him his name.
“So happy and excited to have finally doodled my house,” Cox wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday. “I used 900 liters of white paint, 401 cans of black spray paint (for the outside), 286 bottles of black drawing paint (for the inside) and 2296 pen nibs (I only used four different sized pens but they were refillable and the nibs were replaceable).”
“The animation was created entirely by me and it consists of 1857 photographs, painstakingly taken between September 2020 and September 2022,” he added. “The whole house is real, everything is doodled, the doodles were all hand doodled for the animation it’s not CGI.”
Whoa! A visit to that house would be like taking the Magical Mystery Tour without dropping acid! I’d be seeing whacky wall crawlers after a half hour! I get that art is in the eye of the beholder and all that, but no thanks!
He’s committed to his art and although it’s not my thing it was fun to watch and I guess that’s the point.
The overall effect is oddly dismal
Sam Cox is crazy! Benignly so, but still out of his mind.
I did like him doodling/buttering his toast, though.
I got spanked for that as a kid.
Good place to take some magic schrooms…..
this is what happens when you only have one color crayon
the HOA usually has to approve the color you want to paint your house, their neighbors must be thrilled
As a very young lad, I drew on the wall at home and was severely punished.
The smudged wall remained there for two years, to remind me of my indiscretion and the consequences.
My art career was snuffed in the bud before age 7.
Wow, I thought this was CGI when I first saw it. Crazy! In my first house back in the late 80s I doodled one wall Memphis graphic style. And, that took weeks using a small brush so it’s hard to imagine this!
Every stroke he makes he’s tripping. Reminds me of the Haight Asbury days in San Francisco – 60’s good times.
That does not make for a peaceful home.
…well, that WAS a beautiful house…
Genius/Insanity. Two sides of the same coin. Amazing to witness the human brain with the means and freedom to create…used for good.
Nothing a few gallons of Kilz can’t cure …
His dedication is impressive but he should have found a stopping point earlier. Fun to watch though.
There is no stopping point with Paisley!
Aaaaaaaannnnnd here’s the ear-worm that goes with it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_47KVJV8DU
Stranger Things gone Millennial chic. The guy has a restless, slightly disturbed mind. Not a fan. Creativity is wonderful in itself but this is unsettling. Nope.
It’s cool and I admire his time and dedication. There’s no place for your eye or brain to rest. Maybe with some some undoodled home decor to soften the effect a person could live there. After a half hour inside this 3D sketchbook I’d be ready to bolt outside for blue sky and green trees.
I would go insane living in that house.
How long before his wife calls the painters.
A little bit would be OK.
Aaaaargh!!! Vomitrocious! Let me out of here!
Distracting.
No. If that was wallpaper, I’d be stripping it.
“Oh! I’m going to blow it up. It obstructs my view of Uranus.”
I was a doodler but I grew up. Kinda.
It’s only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
When I was a young man, I was a tech partnered with an older salesman who had a zillion stories of getting married at 13, living on skid row, working on a tramp steamer. Living in LA he became a close friend of the *real* DOODLES WEAVER, and had many tales about that. Word was he had a huge mural in his mansion’s entryway of the Ascension, with angels and cherubim, and a signature at the bottom, “To Doodles, J. Christ”. There was also a story of visiting a movie mogul who had a paperweight of an oscelot’s testicles in Lucite. No idea if anything was true.