Girl Reading

The American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) painted this delightful picture, which I would love to have as a banner for this blog except that I also really like the one I've already got. It's actually called The New Novel and how nice it would be to know what that novel was. I particularly like this because it is painted in watercolour, a technique Homer was celebrated for, and a difficult one to use as I know to my cost as I have recently started going to watercolour classes.