Experimenting with heavy moulding paint #2

When working with the heavy moulding paint, I realised that I had to make sure that the surface of the paint was completely smooth, so that the attention of the viewer would be drawn not to any marks or contours in the paint, but to the text.  Unfortunately, my first attempt at applying the paint to the wooden canvas did not achieve the desired effect I was hoping for, and instead of a flat surface, the paint dried to the contours of the pallete knife I had applied with. As much as the I felt that the contours did add an interesting feature to the piece, overall I was determined to achieve a smoother look. And so, I began experimenting with different tools upon which to apply the mixture; the most successful being a window cleaner in the shape of a squeegee. In addition, I was not sure whether I wanted to layer the text, or to leave it in its own right, still fairly obscured by the white pigment.