Dubuffet 3

So I found that I was creating cartoon-like people, rather than abstract blog people (as Dubuffet does). So I tried again with a new scene, again from a Sydney crime scene in the early 20th Century. (This is Meagher Street in Chippendale).

 in progress.

Dubuffet 2

So once I had set up the Dubuffet style and copied it, I applied it to new subject matter. In this case some photographs of 1940s Sydney crime scenes.

Which yielded these kinds of results

Dubuffet takes over

While i will probably publish a few pages from my works (especially books, which i have been tidying up recently), I am at the moment working on a series of paintings inspired by this Dubuffet painting. I saw this painting in Paris at the Postal Museum (love a good postal museum!).
I loved the painting and since I'm always reticent to draw figures into my paintings, I thought looking at his work might give me more confidence in drawing figures (well, his kind of figures).
Here's the postcard.

And here are two of my versions of it:

more to come.