 
Moving ahead with the boxes, I poured good quality gesso onto the previously primed panel and used a 1/4″ quarter round piece of molding to spread it around the surface. This gives me a nice thick textured surface to work on. I began shaping the gesso into a circle for the first piece, which will be a representation of the monad.
Laying down the gesso with a dowel rod or a piece of quarter round can make a big mess of the floor of the studio, and of the new shoes that your wife bought you for Christmas. Just sayin’…
