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You can mix acrylic 'gesso' with other acrylic paint, yes - it's an acrylic primer, made in much the same way as acrylic paint; or even exactly the same way, but the components mixed differently to ensure smooth coverage.
When I wanted a really white, opaque paint, I turned to Winsor and Newton's artist quality Titanium White, and also to Chromacolour's Chroma White, both of which worked well. But I've also used acrylic gesso as a cheaper white paint, or substitute for tube paint - no problems that I'm aware of.
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You are talking acrylics here, I hope - he said, suddenly panicking..... The very unlikely thought has just come to me that you, being a user of oil paint too, were thinking of adding acrylic gesso to oil paint, which certainly wouldn't be all right.. But you couldn't possibly have meant that......... could you?