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I've been working in Chroma Interactive (hate that word) Acrylics. I bought a few tubes a while ago and messed up pretty badly with them. Things just slid around long after they would have been completely dry in regular acrylics. Now I'm trying again and liking these paints very much. Working wet in wet is a snap. Well, a longish kind of a snap. So I've got this very still life going here and I'm afraid of the grapes which belong on the white ceramic plate. The grapes could be the most interesting part of the painting because I think you could work in that dullish gray tone that purple grapes have. Because there are so many individual grapes, I think with regular acrylics the gray stuff would end up sitting on top of the dried purple color. Anyway, I'm scared. Not that this is such a beautiful piece. God knows there are plenty of wacky areas to fix up, or not. The cast shadow under the bowl leans to the left while the deeper shadow under the plate is right under the plate. That's how the still life appears as there are two sources of light. I can't tell if it looks crazy. I just had to tell someone about this before I march in and tackle the grapes.

post script: The grapes are on the plate. See Main Page or Still Life