Watercolour

If anyone has noticed the background image of the header (shown cropped above, or more fully on my website) it's a negative version of the watercolour sketch below with a little more texture added). It was painted when I was deciding whether to execute an illustration traditionally for Lavie Tidhar's The Last Osama in Interzone or go digital. I went digital but did use some of this painting as a texture (see the blood splatters on the arm of the knife-wielding figure in the final illustration).