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. Both mark making and writing begin with random scribbling, advance to controlled scribbles and marks, and then procede to mock letters and basic shapes and forms.
Next children begin to combine shapes as they draw to represent something or someone.
They explore combinations of mock and real letters. Finally recognizable or representational drawing and conventional letters appear. Remember that children spend a long time exploring, investigating, and playing with shapes, forms, and combinations of diagrams before they are interested in creating recognizable symbols to communicate an idea or feeling. Given their own writing materials and encouragement from adults, young children convey their curiosity and new ideas through drawing and through writing. Quality children's literature.