Children's paintings reflect their growth environments and psychological conditions, and these growth environments represent children's family and educational environments in primary schools. The characteristics of these paintings change as children grow, and children's expressiveness in the paintings also improves. Children's paintings are a representation of their perceptions of things; children transform their perceptions into images that can be understood and observed by people. This research studies the growth characteristics of children based on professional painting techniques. A digital image analysis method was used to analyze the painting techniques of children aged between 7 and 13. The growth characteristics of the different age groups were combined to analyze the representative characteristics of children's paintings at different ages. Lastly, the results of part of a questionnaire survey were used to assist in studying these characteristics. Analysis of these paintings shows that children have a poor ability to control the scale of the objects. Furthermore, the details of the objects are ignored, and children have a poor imitation ability. Young children have lower spatial cognitive abilities than older children, and girls prefer to participate in painting more than boys.
Keywords: children’s growth concern; children’s painting features; children’s painting learning; digital image analysis.