The picture above is a close up of a test I made using a painting knife to spread the gel over a stretched canvas. I then dropped a small amount of FW Artists Acrylic Ink (white, turquoise) and then spread back and forth with the knife.
I love this gel, you can see through the gel to the underpainting below and the canvas texture still. The image doesn't really show the gloss or the peaks created. The only problem I have with this gel is that it is so glossy that I couldn't tell when it was dry. It was a few days before I got up the nerve to test and it was dry.
