A colourful scene

Challenge 9 of 12

Three different shapes here, and every one is coloured exactly the same way — a shapeColour line just above it. Their names are next topic's job, so they are typed in for you this time.

Match the background and all three shapes.

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Match the background and all three shapes.

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Lesson Colours

Colours, now that you know the shape of a sketch. Everything here happens inside everyFrame, on the lines that draw each frame.

Colours have names you can simply type, in capital letters: RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, PURPLE, PINK, BROWN, CYAN, MAGENTA, WHITE, BLACK and GREY. You never have to remember them — the Reference button above your code lists all thirteen, with a patch of each colour beside its name, and clicking one types it in for you.

shapeColour(RED); chooses the colour for shapes drawn after it. Think of it as picking up a coloured pen: everything you draw from then on uses that colour, until you pick up another one. So one shapeColour line can serve several shapes, and shapes that need different colours need a line each — placed just above the shape it should reach. Moving the same line higher or lower changes which shapes it affects.

backgroundColour(BLUE); paints the whole canvas instead, which is why it belongs at the top: anything drawn above it gets painted over and disappears.

In this topic you will name colours from the target picture, learn where a colour reaches, paint the canvas, and finish by changing a shape's name as well as its colour — which is where the next topic picks up.