For any couple planning their wedding day, there must be a certain level of care in the execution of the wedding. This should include traditional items like the cake, the location, and the photography, but also the proper wedding etiquette for the bride, groom, the bridesmaids, the groomsmen, and the guests. Although ignoring proper wedding etiquette will not necessarily ruin a wedding, it can cause feelings to be hurt and may even ruin the bride’s big day.

An important element to keep in mind, if you are a member of the wedding party, for example, a bridesmaid or groomsman, that the day is not about you. It’s about the bride and groom. In essence, you are there to support the bride and groom and do what you can to make things easier on them. That is why there are gifts for groomsman and best man. Causing a scene, upstaging the couple or stealing their thunder is completely unforgivable and any such behavior should be avoided at all costs.

During the wedding, the guests must be aware of their actions and behavior. Certain things like getting up to use the restroom, whispering, or falling asleep can be a distraction for everyone around you. There is nothing worse than being distracted by a guest insisting on making everyone in their row move so they can get up and use the restroom. Cell phones should be turned off as well, to prevent any unexpected interruptions. This is all a matter of common courtesy.

It is quite important for the bride and groom’s parents to follow a few simple rules because they are more likely to have attention focused on them as well. If a parent is weeping hysterically during the wedding, this will most certainly cause a distraction that can interrupt the vows and ultimately create a terrible spectacle.

For the bride and groom, there are also points of etiquette that should be heeded on the day of marriage. For one, incorporating religious or ethic customs should be attempted for the sake of keeping things organized as well as keeping tradition. And of course, the bride and groom should take care to ensure that the guests feel welcome and comfortable at the reception and the wedding. Think of the reception as one magnificent a dinner party with a large number of guests. Greeting them with joy and respect in the reception line is just one way to show your appreciation that they have come to celebrate with you.

And finally we should address gift giving. Traditionally, the bride and groom have registered at a store for personalized gifts that they feel would be finish off new home together. When shopping for gifts, guests should do their best to stick to the registry as best they can. Most couples understand that not everything they want will be in everyone’s price range, and so will put a few smaller items on the list. If you are unable to find something on the gift registry, then a gift of cash is always acceptable. Just use some your common sense.

Beginners Oil Painting Tips - The Ideal Color Wheel

The simplest color wheel consists of a circle divided into six equal wedges. You color the top wedge, say, in yellow (the first primary color). Then going clockwise, you skip a wedge and color the next one in, say, blue (the second primary color). Finally, you skip another wedge and color the next one in red. The respective uncolored wedges will be filled in with the secondary color produced by the mixture of the two neighboring primary colors.

None of the tube colors you can buy in the art stores are pure.

In general, tube color mixtures will yield secondary colors that do not always answer your expectations. Sometimes they will be really off. You may, for example, expect green but get a dirty brown instead.

This reason for this is that tube colors invariably have one or more undertones, i.e., colors that are different from the dominant hue and are present in small amounts. It is these undertones that can change the expected character of a mixture in often drastic ways. So, it is true that red and yellow, for example, generally make an orange but certainly not always a clean orange and sometimes even a color that cannot be called orange.

However, the palette consisting of the following three tube colors will always give you very decent secondary colors:

1. Lemon Yellow

2. Permanent Rose

3. Phthalo Blue (Red Shade)

Here are the properties of these three tube colors:

Note that White and Black are generally not classified as colors.

Lemmon Yellow - Lemmon Yellow is a cool, greenish leaning, and opaque yellow. This yellow is a medium-to-slow drier with medium to low tinting strength.

Permanent Rose - Permanent Rose is a cool, violet leaning, and transparent red. This red is a medium-to-slow drier and has a medium tinting strength.

Phthalo Blue (Red Shade) - Phthalo Blue is a cool, green leaning, and transparent blue. This blue is a medium-to-slow drier and has a very high tinting strength.

These three primary colors are made from synthetic organic pigments and produce very agreeable and clean secondary colors. Lemon Yellow and Permanent Rose despite their respective leanings still make a clean orange mixture. Phthalo Blue (Red Shade) and Lemon Yellow yield an excellent green. Finally, Phthalo Blue (Red Shade) and Permanent Rose result in a first rate violet.

It is possible to improve on this three-color palette if we use two versions of each primary color. We choose them in such a manner that, for example, one version of yellow has an orange bias (i.e., leans towards orange) and the other version of yellow has a green bias. Similarly, one blue will lean towards green and the other towards violet. Finally, one red will lean towards violet and the other towards orange.

Here then, is the ideal six-color palette:

1. Lemon Yellow (green bias)

2. Cadmium Yellow (orange bias)

3. Cadmium Red (orange bias)

4. Permanent Rose (violet bias)

5. French Ultramarine (violet bias)

6. Phthalo Blue (Red Shade) (green bias)

Now, Lemon Yellow and Phthalo Blue (Red Shade) will give a superb green because both colors have a green bias. Similarly, Cadmium Yellow and Cadmium Red will give a brilliant orange because both have an orange undertone. And Permanent Rose together with French Ultramarine will produce an outstanding violet because they both have a violet bias.

Together with Titanium White and Ivory Black the above six colors form an excellent beginning palette that can produce an amazing number of excellent secondary and tertiary colors.

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