“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time.”
– Herbert Bayard Swope
Isn’t that the truth!
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012
Saundersfoot Cottage – 4″ x 6″ Watercolor & Prismacolor Pen
I painted this from a photo by Lin (Old Rock Chick) at WetCanvas. It’s a cottage that Lin just had to stop and take a photo of to share with her WetCanvas friends. The pretty, seaside town of Saundersfoot, is one of Pembrokeshire’s finest holiday resorts, in the United Kingdom, where Lin lives.
I did have to explain to my dear hubby that there are no brown roofs in Betheville and we will never run out of pink paint. 
About Herbert Bayard Swope
Herbert Bayard Swope, the colorful, hard-driving American journalist who became famous as a war correspondent and editor of The New York World, was the first writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for reporting. He was born in St. Louis in 1882. He coined the phrase “cold war” as a speechwriter for statesman Bernard Baruch. In his leisure time, he was a brilliant gambler at the track, at cards, and at stocks, and threw lavish parties. He died in 1958.
Wouldn’t be the same without the pink roof. I love it, too!
Another cool building! I really like how you used a darker maroon on the fence which complements the roof so nicely. It looks much larger than a cottage! And it could be so many interesting things, from a mill to an organic factory of some sort. Perhaps the home of an eccentric hermit! Thank you for the comment on my hat-scape! (Oooh, I just made that up lol.)
I have seen a very similar quote attributed to Bill Cosby.
Yes, there are many people who have quotes with that message. It’s a good one!
Love it!!!! Especially the pink Bethville roof!!! ~Sophia
Thanks, Sophia! I do love my pink.