Art

Step 1: Paint with Tera

Today’s main project is Art - Paint with Tera. Open the starter project, press the green flag and try it. Then click See inside to look at the scripts.

• Paint with Tera: Starter project

Step 2: Costumes and the paint editor

Click a sprite, then open its Costumes tab. Each picture is one costume. You can draw a new costume with the paint editor, or duplicate one and change it a little. Use the backdrop the same way to change the picture behind your sprites.

Step 3: Animation

An animation is a fast series of pictures. In Scratch you make one by switching costumes in a loop.

1. when green flag clicked
2. forever
3. Inside it: next costume, then wait 0.2 seconds

The wait is important. Without it the costumes change too fast to see.

Step 4: Art that reacts to you

Events start scripts. Try these from the Events category:

• when this sprite clicked: runs when someone clicks the sprite.
• when space key pressed: runs when someone presses a key. You can pick any key.

Put a Looks block such as change color effect by 25 underneath, and the artwork changes when you click or press.

Step 5: Projects to remix

If your class finishes the main project early, choose one of these.

Art - Animation. Pick the starter you like:

• Starter project 1
• Starter project 2
• Starter project 3
• Starter project 4
• Starter project 5
• Starter project 6

Art - Interactive Art. Pick the starter you like:

• Starter project 1
• Starter project 2
• Starter project 3
• Starter project 4

Each starter gives you different characters and backgrounds, so choose the one you like best.