Acetate

I have begun painting screen captures from Bambi onto acetate.
I chose three screen captures from different scenes that used layers in different ways. One is of Bambi and four birds, one is of two characters conversing and the other is of a character inside the scenery. I have studied them closely and have decided how I think Disney have layered the contents of the scene and then attempted to replicate the screen capture.
So far I am happy with what I've produced. It turns out gouache paint is tricky to use but does produce the brightest and most opaque result. The paint actually shrinks when it is painted onto acetate- some colours more so than others (eg red). I think this may be because the paints I bought were very cheap in comparison to what you normally pay for goache paints (too much for my student budget!). To get past this problem I have been mixing small quantities of acryllic paint into the guaoche paint to stop it from shrinking. Acryllic paint is often used on acetate in the industry but it is much less opaque and needs a lot of layers, which can be painstaking.