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I've always had this difficulty, using too little paint, not because I'm frugal (more spendthrift, actually) but perhaps out of the tentativeness of uncertainty and lack of confidence. I've explained myself occasionally by saying that when I made mistakes, I didn't want them to be big, messy ones. Unfortunately, the "mistake" of using too little paint affects the integrity of the entire work. One of my instructors used to walk behind me and stop and, almost in exasperation, come up like a surrogate conscience and whisper "Use more paint." When I finally "got it", I was thrilled with the new ability to move the paint around, blend edges, work new colour and value into an area. An old adage in the business is to "paint like a millionaire". I believe it's David Leffel who says that your brush should almost never touch the canvas, meaning there should always be a good measure of paint between the two.
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