Day two hundred and seventy-three: Reading about the drawings and etched prints of Italian mannerist Parmigianino made me want to try a sketch after something he made in the sixteenth century. By chance, I found a snapshot I took with my iPhone of a drawing of an angel attributed to Parmigianino at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It looks nothing like what you see here, but it was his spare use of line and wash that inspired this face. Visiting Minneapolis for the weekend without my computer, l turned to the iPad to recreate the Italian master’s hand, however, found my own hand and the sketchbook app’s setting lacked what was necessary to finger paint a reasonable facsimile. I abandoned the attempt, committed a few of Parmigianino’s lines to memory, and made up my own version of an angel’s face. I see there’s still a little Picasso influence in my hand too, as the style reminds me a bit of the modern master’s Metamorphoses etchings.
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