Reply With QuoteThe woman has skills, those are certainly a step above the usual badly-proportioned dross most watch "art" seems to be.
https://howtospendit.ft.com/watches-...ch-portraitistWhen it comes to watch auctions, Julie Kraulis is a demographic aberration. She is not a millennial billionaire with a multimillion-a-year Richard Mille habit; nor is she a 60-odd-year-old collector with 100 Rolex Daytonas under the bed; nor, for that matter, a fast-talking West Coast watch dealer with a celebrity-rich contacts list. You certainly won’t catch her in the cashmere sports jacket and Loro Piana Open Walk uniform of the international watch auctioneer.
Most obviously, she bucks the trend by not being male. With her wholesome smile and athlete’s build (she runs, plays tennis and is a keen supporter of her hometown basketball team the Toronto Raptors), she looks exactly like the children’s-book author and illustrator that she was before she discovered wristwatches and became the world’s leading – perhaps only – watch portraitist. It is a new métier she has in effect invented, and then embraced with an enthusiasm worthy of that arch-heroine of children’s literature, Eleanor H Porter’s Pollyanna. “It’s pretty extraordinary,” she says. “It’s cool to have found this niche. It’s so serendipitous and I love it.”
Interesting way to make a living and she seems to making quite a decent income out of it.
I am happy to draw someone's watch for a much more modest fee.
The woman has skills, those are certainly a step above the usual badly-proportioned dross most watch "art" seems to be.
For anyone interested, Nick Foulkes has some very good writing on watches in the FT and elsewhere.
He is arguably what Wei Koh wants to be: https://youtu.be/PCUFVGvhMaU.
And his recent YouTube contributions on cigars have been amusing: https://youtu.be/wGoLDLLGQIM.
Last edited by JGJG; 4th July 2020 at 14:26.
Very talented!
Am I the only one who can't stand Wei Koh? On the other hand Nick does some great work!Originally Posted by JGJG
Thanks OP on the article about Julie, I first saw her work on ACollectedMan - the sketch of the Journe Tourbillon that was sold for quite a bit of money. She does some good stuff - but I would like to see her get more commissions with less mainstream watches, she did a cracking job with the Journe.
A member here's been doing that for donkeys years, even to the point of selling sketches on SC. I forget who!
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gregory
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...hlight=drawing
Last edited by GraniteQuarry; 4th July 2020 at 15:22.
Julie's work is astounding, but I'm not sure she's the only portraitist. She is probably the best photorealistic watch artist I've seen, but how do you compare her work to, for example, the art of Lee Yuen-Rapati (@Onehourwatch on Instagram), whose commissions are astounding in a different way?
He recently did some work for Roger W Smith (photos used here without permission):
https://www.rwsmithwatches.com/journ...ch-reimagined/
Great skills.
Andy
Wanted - Damasko DC57
Very cool.
Yes, can't stand him, so irritating and superficial. No substance. Enjoyed the watch portrait article in the FT by contrast.
Saw this, been following her for a while on Instagram - the sheer size of most the portraits she does is unbelievable - well worth a follow to (somewhat) break up a newsfeed full of watches - @juliekraulis
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There is a way to do this using a fairly convoluted post-processing technique as well. If anyone has a high resolution image of a watch that they'd like converted, I can do it for a £10 fundraiser donation (assuming I don't get dozens of requests).
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Sketch:
Looking at the OP - wow that is stunning work!
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