1. Digital Art in Scratch part 2 Barb Ericson Georgia Tech Nov 2010

2. Project Description We will create a spider sprite and have it draw with the Pen blocks –We will teach it to draw a square –And make a flower out of many squares

3. Big Picture Delete the cat sprite Paint the sprite that you will draw with –A spider Program the sprite –To draw a square when it receives a square message –And a flower out of many squares

4. Delete cat sprite To delete the cat –Click the scissors –Click the cat Or right click on the cat and select delete

5. Programming Steps When the green flag is clicked do all set-up –Clear the drawing area –Draw a square How do you draw a square? –Repeat 4 times Move 10 steps Turn 90 degrees

6. Set-up When the green flag is clicked - Control –Clear the drawing area – in Pen –Put the pen down – also in Pen

7. Draw a Square Repeat 4 times – Control –Move 10 steps – Motion Change to 50 –Turn – Motion Change to 90

8. Drawing many squares We can draw a flower by drawing many squares –And turning between them

9. Breaking this into pieces Use broadcast and receive to make reusable parts –Put pen down when you draw a square and pick up after

10. Challenge Add other shapes –Triangle Add a way to clear the drawing –When you press a key Add a variable to control the width of the square –You can even make this a slider

11. Connection to Art Piet Mondrian made modern art with just black lines and solid colors –Can you do something like this? –Try setting the pen width and color