Sigi's recent project ‘Icons of Jazz’ was borne out of her love for jazz which allows her to immerse herself in the subject.  It started with a photo she had taken of her husband  playing one of his instruments.  She converted it into a pastel piece of art.  This gave her the idea of painting jazz artists she listened to dating back to her teen years in Germany.  Before any paper gets touched with her pastels, she makes notes of her subject from memory, researches jazz history books, and lastly Wikipedia.  For accuracy on painting instruments, microphones, piano, she uses her husbands and her own instruments as a guide or checks through music catalogs.  At some point, she traveled to Austin to the Guitar Center and asked the clerk for permission to photograph a Neumann U87 microphone for Billie Holiday’s painting.  Once she has a clear picture in her mind, she draws many sketches in pencil .  The next step; mostly using black or dark pastel paper, she uses a white charcoal pencil and sketches her subject, and finally paints.  While she paints, she listens to her subject’s music, immersing herself in the personality and expression of the musicians. 

Sigi also developed the skill of graphic design which is evident in the series ‘Icons of Jazz’ where the instruments and/or microphones are painted often in precise detail.