Art - Goût - Beauté, Feuillets de l' élégance féminine, Juin 1932, No. 142, 12e Année, p. 8 1932

This page from a 1932 issue of Art - Goût - Beauté, is by an artist named R. Drivon, and it has such a clear sense of process. You can see how the artist built up the image with layers of color and line, and how they made decisions about composition and form as they went along. I love the way Drivon used color and texture to create a sense of depth and dimension. The clothing is rendered in flat, graphic planes of color, but the subtle gradations of tone and shading give the figures a sense of volume and weight. Look at the figure in the foreground, the way the red accents pop against the white of the dress, creating a dynamic sense of movement and energy. The hand drawn lines around the figures are a bit sketchy, not quite joining up, and it feels so right. You can feel a kinship between this and the work of someone like Erté, but really this plate speaks to a moment in time, a conversation, and a real love of the process of making. It reminds us that art is not just about the final product, but about the journey of discovery that we take as we create.