![]() ![]() So every watch has afforded me a great challenge. So they’re teaching me to deal with shiny, matte textures and patina - patina’s been one of the hardest things to work on. I guess because I’m fairly new to the subject matter, I’m learning a lot. ![]() Q: What do you love most about drawing these watches?Ī: I think every watch has its own unique thing that I love about it. I want them to be secondary because the focus is to recreate the iconic designs - I want you to know what the watch is, but the secondary details should echo the heritage. There are often strong themes with watches - with the Submariner it’s water - so I read and look at many sources of inspiration and then there’s usually one or two details that stand out. I then take those details and I just sort of let them roll around and distill into ideas. If it’s a commission I work closely with the client to glean as many details as I can. Q: Could you explain your process for weaving the story of the watch into the sketch?Ī: In the primary stage I do a lot of research and reading. Now I’m starting to work on a Rolex Submariner 5513 and I’m starting to read about Steve McQueen, another racing and Hollywood icon. I did a deep dive, started watching his films, and started researching the watch. So I read the story, it was really interesting, and Paul Newman is so Iconic and legendary and charismatic it’s impossible not to fall in love with him. It was after the article in Wall Street Journal about Phillips selling the watch at their Winning Icons auction. Q: What are some vintage watches you’ve drawn?Ī: Probably the most famous one is Paul Newman’s Daytona. I’ve worked on new watches, but most have been vintage. I was drawn to the vintage side of watches because of the stories behind them. And so I started reading a bit more, then posted my first watch and it had a great reaction and I thought that there was more there. I’ve always been into design and details, and didn’t know anything about watches, but came across an article about iconic watches. I spoke with Kraulis on the phone to learn more about her, her process and her budding relationship with watches.Ī: It was about two years ago – I had been looking for a new subject to study and for a new collection. ![]() (Her weapon of choice, if you’re curious, is the Staedtler Mars Lumograph.) And while she has sketched modern timepieces before, her main subjects are vintage pieces like Paul Newman’s iconic Daytona or, most currently, Steve McQueen’s Rolex Submariner.īut Kraulis’s sketches are more than just meticulously crafted, insanely detailed prints – they hint at the rich backgrounds and personalities of each timepiece she draws. Yet Kraulis has quickly become something of an Instagram sensation in the watch community with over 13,000 followers thanks to her incredibly-detailed, hand-sketched portraits of watches that, by her estimate, take anywhere between 200 to 280 hours and 30 to 50 pencils to finish. So I never needed a watch for practicality’s sake.” “Time has never been all that important to me, I flow through my day without much attention to it. “It’s crazy, I’m a watch artist and I’ve never had one my whole life,” she tells me. Kraulis, as of present, doesn’t even own or wear a watch. Julie Kraulis has been drawing her entire life, but when she was sketching, painting and playing with crayons at her kitchen table as a kid, she probably never thought she’d make a living drawing watches. ![]()
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