Inspiration Ave Harlequin Challenge

I think someone has it in for me with the Inspiration Ave weekly challenge.  I finally decide to enter and last week it was the Seamstress and I hate sewing, then this week it is Harlequin.  What is the first thing that comes to mind, clowns and I hate clowns.  Sewing machines and clowns have something in common, they are both very mean beasties.  I have had a dislike of clowns since I was a child, don't know why, just feel very uneasy around them.  So there was no way I was going to scare myself and paint one of those awful things.

One thing I do love are fish, and there is a harlequin fish, so my entry this week is a harlequin fish with a border of harlequin patterns.  My normally very square husband (he is a maths teacher, so that says enough) suggested I blend the pattern with the fish and that is what I have done.  I got two surprises, one that he thought of it and two that it looks quite effective.

 
Mr H (as I now affectionately call him) is painted in acrylic on textured paper and the harlequin border is just a print out on copy paper and stuck on with double sided tape.  You didn't think I was actually going to paint all of that patterned stuff now did you?  I did paint the pattern within the border and the bottom right pattern is darker on purpose, to look like it is in shadow but it looks more like I messed up.

The top photo was scanned in using my hundred year old scanner and this picture is with my camera and is a better colour match. 

Had a busy week out and about so not much art has been done, let's hope next week is a better one.

For those of you cold in the snow, my latest post  about summer, may be a bit upsetting :)