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I want to start glazing to give things glowing type effects but I can't figure out how to make the glaze properly. I read a nice tutorial about how you don't want it TOO watered down so you can still control the glaze, but everytime I do it it's too watered down or not. Does anyone with experience with this have a nice ratio I can try out to make a light glaze?

Thanks

Its trail and error but I would suggest getting a couple of empty dropper bottles and mix up some batches and try them out.

you can also get acrylic glazing agents which may help you, if you want to spend some money.

Try about 4:1 water to paint. It's all about the brush control - you really want very little on your brush - too much and you'll flood the area and it'll behave like a wash. Add a little detergent / flow improver to help the glaze be controllable.

I did a tiny little area of OSL as an experiment, and I found that adding acrylic matte medium helped. I had some ancient FolkArt (crappy craft paint brand) "Thickener for Acrylic Paint" that I inherited on hand, so I just used that. It was pretty thick, so I had to thin down the results quite a bit more than one would normally have to, but the results should be comparable. The acrylic medium helps drop the paint's opacity without resorting to water - a combination of the two gave me just what I was looking for. Adding a bit of acrylic medium to the mix will allow you to use a glaze that acts like thinned paint but only applies as much pigment as colored water.

To elaborate on Winterdyne's point, the tutorials I've seen which mention glazing make a point of mentioning that you need to wipe off all but a little of the glaze mixture before you apply it. Because there's so little of it, this should then dry within several seconds, allowing you to rapidly build up successive glazes (very useful for source lighting).