Painting

The Painting activity is a feature that allows Jammers to create their own artwork. It can be found in the Art Studio and it was introduced on July 19, 2012. It can also be accessed using the Painter's Easel den item.

Tools
The tool panel for Painting is located along the left side of the screen with color selection in the top half and brush selection in the bottom. There is also an undo-redo button at the very bottom of the tool panel.

Colors
The top-most section of the tools is devoted to a large color palette that is configured with color brightness along the horizontal axis and color hue along the vertical axis. Beneath the color palette is a small grey-scale palette that has brightness along the horizontal axis. Beside the palette area is a column of fifteen rectangles that represent the color history for the player, with the most recently used colors at the bottom.

Below the color palette and color history column is a grid of eight (two wide by four tall) large rounded rectangles that represent the saved colors for the player. When the player clicks one of the saved colors, it is highlighted with a golden border and that color becomes the active color for the current brush. If the player clicks a color from the palette or the color history, that color will be saved in the currently active slot, replacing the previously saved color.

Brushes
The top half of the brushes section contains a two-wide by four-tall grid with eight different brush types. Below the brush types is a grid with six (two wide by three tall) brush thicknesses that range from tiny to large. Each brush type can have a thickness level except for the paint bucket fill brush. The brush types are as follows:
 * Paint Brush - This is a standard brush tool that draws along the path of the pointer.
 * Line - This brush is used to make straight, rectangular lines. The player clicks down where they want the line to start then drags their pointer to the ending spot for the line and releases the pointer to create the line.
 * Air Brush - Similar to the Paint Brush, this brush tool draws a series of semi-transparent circles along the path of the pointer.
 * Rectangle - This brush is used to create hollow rectangles that have transparent centers. The player uses this tool by clicking to set one corner point and then dragging and releasing at another location to set the opposite corner point for the rectangle.
 * Paint Bucket - This brush tool is used to fill a contiguous area of the same color with the current color by clicking anywhere in the area to be filled.
 * Ellipse - This brush is identical to the Rectangle brush tool except it draws an ellipse inside the area that would be the rectangle.
 * Paw Smudge - This brush tool is used to smear the existing color along the path of the pointer.
 * Triangle - This brush is identical to the Rectangle brush tool except it draws a triangle inside the area that would be the rectangle.

Sketch Jam
The Painting activity includes a button (which looks like a Penguin holding a pencil) to open the Choose A Video screen. On this screen, the player can select a short speed-drawing video to watch. The currently available videos are:
 * Sketch Jam - Arctic Wolf
 * Sketch Jam - Hyena
 * Sketch Jam - Mira
 * Sketch Jam - Wolf
 * Sketch Jam - Puppy
 * Sketch Jam - Phantom
 * Sketch Jam - Bunny

Other Controls
Next to the Sketch Jam button is another round button with a picture of a printer; when clicked it will open up a printer dialog for printing the artwork to an attached printer. Beside the printer button is a button with a recycle bin label on it; when clicked, it will confirm that the player wants to start over and then erase the current artwork.

Trivia

 * The undo button can only undo a single action, so many mistakes cannot be undone this way.
 * The color history column defaults to a rainbow spectrum of colors when the activity is first started.
 * Each time the activity is started, the saved colors default to black, white, red, purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange.
 * If the triangle tool brush is used with a very large thickness to draw a small triangle, it draws a trapezoid instead.
 * If the circle tool brush is used with a very large thickness to draw a small circle, the inner edge of the circle will have a hexagonal shape instead of a rounded shape.