that children love to express
creativity by painting before elementary school, but
they lose the passion to paint after entering
elementary school when their interest changes to
language [1]. Children do not lose the passion to
paint if their family or school continues to stimulate
them. This practice means a training to acquire
skills of drawing. This training imposes suffering on
children and children cannot stay motivated. This
research aims to tackle the problem in a fun way
relating to the relationship between children and art
by using a painting application based on the Social
Constructivism system, and increases the
motivation of children to paint.
To achieve this purpose, we implemented the
iPhone application "The World is Canvas". This
application enables the user to use any image as a
draft for coloring and to support drawing which
most children do not do well. To be concrete, the
user shoots any object using the camera
embedded on iPhone. Next, the user chooses an
image on the application. This application traces
the image loaded on the application and generates
a draft for coloring. The user can enjoy coloring on
this processed image using his/her favorite color
and brush size