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" Painting by Donald Robertson Donald Robertson, known to his close friends and 12k-and-counting Instagram followers as Donald &amp;quot;Draw&amp;quot;bertson, has an amazing ability to make magic out of the mundane. Always armed with a sharpie, tape, paint, and an iPhone, Robertson turns anything he can get his hands on into art. He shapes old shoe boxes into cardboard Tom Ford stores, paints Karl Lagerfeld&amp;#039;s face on walnuts, and builds Birkins out of paper bags. By day, the the father of five (he and his wife just had twins!) is a creative director at Bobbi Brown (where he has a reputation for playfully doodling co-worker&amp;#039;s portraits during meetings). We caught up with Instagram-obsessed artist, on the heels of the Lisa Perry Fall 2014 fashion show where he transformed a basic white runway into an abstract masterpiece with just a few roll of black gaffer tape.         @lisaperrystyle busted! #gaffertape don&amp;amp;#39;t stand still around me. #iwilltapeoveryou A photo posted by Donald Robertson (@drawbertson) on Feb 4, 2014 at 9:40pm PST     ElleDECOR.com: You have this ability to make art out of anything, even trash! How long have you been doing this?  Donald &amp;quot;Drawbertson&amp;quot; Roberston: I love the idea of turning things we would normally throw away into prestige luxury goods! I have Zappos boxes that I&amp;#039;ve painted Vuitton prints on that are priceless now. I&amp;#039;ve always done it, I&amp;#039;ve just been posting it now on Instagram for exactly one year. ED: Do you doodle all day? DR: I am constantly painting and drawing, and thinking about what I could paint or draw next.        A photo posted by Donald Robertson (@drawbertson) on Feb 1, 2014 at 2:43am PST     ED: You are constantly posting, do you just have infinite ideas? Where are you getting all of this inspiration? DR: I get up every morning at around four and do my art exercises. I&amp;#039;ll fly through Instagram and sort of get a feel for what&amp;#039;s happening in the world! Then I&amp;#039;ll just pick a medium like paint or sharpies or garbage bags or walnuts or whatever catches my eye! Then you can&amp;#039;t stop me. It&amp;#039;s like flood gates opening. See for yourself. Visit my feed! I can&amp;#039;t imagine doing one thing and then just sitting back. We are constantly being bombarded my imagery and ideas. It&amp;#039;s like my performance art. I&amp;#039;m always reacting to stimulus coming at me all day.         Well someone scored a one way ticket to #hollywood! @lilysaltz I need the address! #wholefoodsbags A photo posted by Donald Robertson (@drawbertson) on Feb 2, 2014 at 1:12pm PST     ED: How does your artwork crossover into your work day at Bobbi Brown? DR: As a creative director, I have always drawn out my ideas. For example, the head of store design Carol Bocchieri recently sat down and drew out a new Bobbi Brown concept store for Hong Kong. It was like drawing tennis. I&amp;#039;d go then she would go. We came up with the best new store! That&amp;#039;s my day. ED: People are discovering your work via Instagram\u2026 does this surprise you? DR: The fantastic thing about Instagram is that it has taken illustration back to its glory days. People love seeing something drawn or painted by hand! The reaction to my lip paintings is a perfect example. I&amp;#039;m painting lips for Bobbi Brown and the next thing I know they are on a dress by Giles Deacon being modeled by Georgia May Jaggar at London Fashion Week! It&amp;#039;s all connected. Fashion, beauty, art... Instagram. ED: Have you met any interesting people through Instagram? DR: I have met so many great people via my phone. I spent the day painting and emailing Dita Von Teese. We just kind of bumped into each other on a feed. It&amp;#039;s like that. Picture, people, connecting. ED: Do you sell your artwork through Instagram? How can people buy your work or have their portrait done? Or a replica of their home built out of boxes? DR: I was stumped as to how to sell my stuff on Instagram! People were asking and asking. My right hand at Bobbi Brown, Lily Saltzberg, introduced me to her friend Jon Alagem&amp;#039;s new fashion app Trendabl to sell make up. A light bulb went on over my head! Sell fashion prints to people looking to buy clothes! Jon had Lily and I set up and running in an hour. I&amp;#039;m selling like crazy now exclusively on Trendabl. It&amp;#039;s so easy to use. It&amp;#039;s a fortune for the original pieces but we have also just introduced more affordable signed and numbered prints that we&amp;#039;re releasing every Tuesday. Lily is looking for more fashion people to bring on. It&amp;#039;s like Instagram meets NET-A-PORTER! It&amp;#039;s great.   Royal Tenenbaums painting by Donald Robertson ED: What piece garnered the most attention? DR: My fave favorite piece of late is a portrait of some of the cast from the movie Royal Tenenbaums. I love the visuals in that movie so much! I didn&amp;#039;t realize that Lily had posted it on Trendabl seconds after I posted it. That one sold in half an hour. I&amp;#039;m a little sad it&amp;#039;s gone. As far as popularity that one might have been my all time most liked! That and the picture I took of my new identical twin baby boys...That was a hit too!  Giles, Spring/Summer 2014 ED: Tell us about the runway you designed for Lisa Perry&amp;#039;s Fall 2014 show? DR: After Giles Deacon, Lisa Perry was one of the first people to notice my work on Instagram. I had just started posting my paintings made from gaffertape and she was like, &amp;quot;Who are you? Call me! We need to meet! Come to my store we can have a drink at the Mark!&amp;quot; It was that abrupt. Then she asked me to gaffer tape her store for her fall collection presentation. Walls, floors, benches, ceiling. &amp;quot;Go for it,&amp;quot; she said, &amp;quot;Crazier the better!&amp;quot; She has since bought my biggest gaffer tape painting to date and has become a great friend.  Lisa Perry, Spring 2014 ED: Any other collaborations in the works? DR: I just finished a series of paintings of all the Oscar nominees for Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey! She is launching her new beauty commerce site called Violet Grey and asked me to do portraits of them for an Oscar nominees party she is hosting in her new spa.         #makeupbag #nextbigthing A photo posted by Donald Robertson (@drawbertson) on Jan 20, 2014 at 2:25am PST     Also on ELLEDECOR.com What&amp;#039;s Inside Bobbi Brown&amp;#039;s Bathroom Cabinet Lisa Perry Palm Beach Home  11 Ways To Transform A Blank Wall "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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