How to read children's drawings

Abstract

This book is for teachers, school and children psychologists, parents and everyone who has an interest in the development and understanding of child art. The examples provided throughout this book are entirely taken from my personal practice in my work with children in the fine arts field. For almost 20 years I have collected, looked through and analysed children’s drawings. I have trained children to draw and have been learning from their drawings and the experiences which they readily and sincerely share through them. The strong emotional load which the drawings carry convinced me in the credibility of the messages which children put in them. Knowing the stages of child art development is the basis of understanding and analysing children’s drawings. The combination of my personal experience from my work in art education and that in therapy have led to a significant depth in their interpretation and adequacy of their understanding. In my experience, a good understanding of children’s drawings can guarantee a more thorough insight in their world which they share in the graphic images in their drawings.