I have loads of the cheap acrylic paint that cost like $1.00 for 2 oz. Is there a cheap way to make it more paste like? I bought modeling paste but it's not really cheap. Im looking for texture so that I can use knife. Keep in mind I want it to hold up like the good stuff. Any ideas?

May have some ideas if you tell me what you want to use it for. I used to use sand to give more texture to be able to use, not with a knife, but a spatula. I don't know what you mean by hold up like the good stuff. Starving artists use many things that 'hold up under scrutiny'.

Does that give you some ideas ?

I paint on canvas and really like the good tubes of acrylic paint(really thick rich paint) but I like to use big blobs of paint, (which as you may or may not know gets expensive fast) you know the 3d look. Flowers popping off the canvas, what I mean by hold up is that one day it won't fall off the canvas in chunks.

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Yes, so try the sand with your cheap acrylics and find out how it works. It is all about experimenting, many times over, until you get it right. That is what I found. However, don't do acrylics anymore, graduated to watercolour, don't do that anymore and graduated to stained glass.

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