Designing the Wally Award

too playful

My first wax Maquette of the Walter Schäuble Trophy for the Ethnic Broadcasting award…. I found this design a little too playful and detailed, so back to the drawing board.

not abstract enough

My second Maquette out of wax for the Walter Shäuble Trophy. Had some potential, but it would be difficult to cast this in bronze. I needed something more abstract and compact.

Now we're getting there

There we go. This is more like it. My only thought process was that it still had too many edges and was not compact enough

1988 - Almost done

There we are. Sleek, compact, abstract and modern. The final product from behind.


The making of Oeva - the family helps out

Plaster Sculpture

Heidi Kubitz helped to paint the plaster sculpture with shellac.

Sculpture cast in parts

Due to the size of the entire sculpture, the plaster cast had to be cut into various segments in order to cast in bronze. Following the casting the bronze parts had to be reassembled.

Sandblasting bronze

My husband Hans-Jürgen Kubitz helped me to sandblast the reassembled bronze sculpture as I had just injured my shoulder.

Bronze polish

Marcus Kubitz helped me to polish the bronze sculpture before the patina is applied.

The artist at work

Grinding Talcstone

Here I am working on grinding my Talcstone sculpture with a grinder to get the features smoothed out.

Terracotta

I modeled the bust of our son in 1976. The piece was fired in a kiln shortly after this picture.

my etching press

My Etching Press was one of my favorite artistic tools. I literally created hundreds of etchings in multiple editions using this machine.

Generations

Whilst my mother visited us in Australia, I took the chance to model her and our daughter in clay. After drying and firing the art piece, I was happy that the hollow Terracotta bust remained in one piece.

my first oil painting

In 1963, I worked in the USA as a surgical nurse. In my spare time I began and finished my first large oil painting. Unfortunately, I never took a photo of the completed work.

Making Etchings

filing the plate

After completing the etching, Gumnut Dreamtime I needed to file the edges of the engraved copper etching plate before printing

Inking the plate

Having inked the etching plate it is now ready for printing onto moist paper.

Printing preparation

Once the plate has been inked and placed on the printing press, one carefully places a moist sheet of paper on top of the plate and covers it with a felt blanket before turning the wheel for pressing (printing).

Voila

This is what it looks like when it comes out on the other side of the printing press. This particular etching was printed on moist Papyrus paper.