They can have names like square, rectangle, triangle, and circle. Space is the area around or enclosed by forms. It can be positive, negative or over-lapping. Space can be far, near, high, wide, deep, close, beside, inside, front, back, and middle. Colors have value, intensity, tint, and shade.
Colors have names.
They can be warm or cool, light or dark. There are primary colors, secondary colors, complementary colors and contrasting colors. Texture can be soft, fuzzy, rough, smooth, bumpy, hard, or slick. Texture can be achieved through simple or complex patterns and by varying or mixing the tools and materials used. Children's drawing and emergent writing both follow developmental stages, universal patterns, and symbols when they are given time, space, and materials.