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Happy Friday artists, art lovers, and parents of creative kids and teens!\u00a0<\/strong>Welcome to Art Club:\u00a0Sparketh\u2019<\/a>s weekly round-up of the latest in art news, creative resources, trending art challenges (and more.) If you love the arts and creativity, you\u2019re in the right place.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week, we’re exploring current art topics that all touch on a similar question: “Why do artists create?”<\/b><\/p>\n

We’ll check out one artist whose dream in live is to live in a home made of his own art, and another who views art as a way to mediate experiences. In celebration of World Mental Health Day, we’ll explore why creating art is good for your mental health. You’ll get some viral tips to help you in your art method!\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Art News: Life in House of Doodles<\/h2>\n

At some point in our childhoods, we’ve all probably doodled on the walls. Most of us got in pretty big trouble for it, too. However, Sam Cox (known professionally as “Mr. Doodle”) was always encouraged to draw on the walls of his room. Today, as an adult, he’s taken it to a whole new level.<\/p>\n

Mr. Doodle, a professional artist whose work has sold for up to almost $1 million per piece, has now officially completed what he calls his “best piece of work.” The work? His house!<\/p>\n

Over two years of effort, the artist has covered his entire $1.5 million home in doodles. Not just the walls, either.\u00a0 Mr. Doodle has also covered bedding, appliances, and even the toilet in his signature, black-and-white doodles. He also painted his stove, which he admits may have rendered it un-useable. (I guess he and Mrs. Doodle will be eating out a lot.)<\/p>\n

When talking to the host of BBC Breakfast<\/em>, the artist describes being able to live in a home made of his art as “a sort of paradise for me.”<\/p>\n

Why He Creates\/Doodles:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Cox told BBC News<\/em> that doodling is \u201calmost like an out-of-body experience. You\u2019re just indulging yourself in this free-flowing state of creation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Doodle gives us some interesting insight on reasons we create. Perhaps it comes partially from a desire to meditate, to flow with a particular state of mind, or to create a world of our own imagining (literally, in his case.)<\/p>\n

Check out the video below to see this artist’s completed home!<\/p>\n