The thickness or thinness of paint will depend on how you paint. Paint lots of painting. After a while you will find hat you gravitate toward.

Like everyone else here, we have a range of paints from more solid types to the softer versions and we use them depending on what we want to achieve. There really are no short cuts to plain old solid practice and experimentation. Perhaps you should keep some notes on the various paints, when you use them, etc, so you can get a better feel for them and why you like the paint or not.

Well poo, I think I paint fairly thin and I have all heavy body. Perhaps I should try some soft body too. Is there any medium that I can use to properly thin them to the point of soft body? I have a matte medium that I use now and then, but I don’t see much difference from just adding water. But maybe I’m just not using enough? I saw some “Liquitex flow” at the store the other day, I used to use something like that when painting craft things, but I remembered it sort of made things more translucent, and I prefer to stay opaque unless I’m glazing in some colors, which I find I’m loving, btw. If you were to get one color to try, what would you suggest? Some sky color? Although, I don’t usually have too much trouble getting my sky to go on nicely, unless I’m doing a larger canvas and then I have to work pretty fast.

Well poo, I think I paint fairly thin and I have all heavy body. Perhaps I should try some soft body too. Is there any medium that I can use to properly thin them to the point of soft body? I have a matte medium that I use now and then, but I don’t see much difference from just adding water. But maybe I’m just not using enough? I saw some “Liquitex flow” at the store the other day, I used to use something like that when painting craft things, but I remembered it sort of made things more translucent, and I prefer to stay opaque unless I’m glazing in some colors, which I find I’m loving, btw. If you were to get one color to try, what would you suggest? Some sky color? Although, I don’t usually have too much trouble getting my sky to go on nicely, unless I’m doing a larger canvas and then I have to work pretty fast.

If you like to paint “thin” the advantage of using either the soft body or fluid acrylics is that they are already closer to the consistency you want to paint with. You don’t have to add as much water or medium to get them to flow the way you want and the pigment density will be much higher or more opaque because you didn’t have to dilute the paint so much to thin it.

One of my favorite acrylic artists, Charles Harrington, advises using a mixture of 50 percent water and 50 percent acrylic medium if you want to really thin down the heavy body acrylics so that you maintain proper adhesion of the paints. If you add too much water to the acrylics to thin them, you might weaken the binding of the medium.

Beverly

My pleasure.

BTW, a little flow enhancer (made by many different lines of acrylics) added to your mixing water will also help the soft body and fluid acrylics flow more evenly and come off the brush better when doing detail. A little of this goes a long way so follow instructions on the bottle for proper mixing ratios.

Beverly

The thickness or thinness of paint will depend on how you paint. Paint lots of painting. After a while you will find hat you gravitate toward.

This. Get them all and just paint. You will find your preferences. I use all of them for various things. I like the Basics/Liquitex/Golden that you have. I use them for backgrounds and to cover large areas. I love the thickness. But for detals and some other things I do in my paintings I prefer the soft or fluid paints. So it just depends what I am working on but over time I have a amount of colors for each type and do use them all.

If the issue is coverage….You can always use the titanium white to cover and then use the final color over it when dried….