Visual education and upbringing are important for the overall development of the preschool child. In the development of the child's artistic expression, several different maturation and learning processes are interwoven, from the development of the arm and fist psychomotor, the child's knowledge about the environment and the transition from intellectual to visual realism. Every kindergarten educator should know the psychological and pedagogical background of the child's artistic expression and his development. At first, the child expresses himself by the motoric movements of his arm and elbow, with the joy of moving and leaving traces on paper. The visual expression at the earliest stage is not yet guided by ideas. When a child begins to name the characters he has drawn, we can conclude that there is a link between the child's experience and what has been transferred to the paper. With time, child makes more fine movements by arm and starts to move his hand when drawing. At the end of the first stage of artistic expression, the eye, mind and arm are combined. The idea is the initiator of visual activity at the stage of complex symbols where phenomena that interest a child appear and we may notice more details in the drawings. Each child transmits a certain message to artistic creativity. In order to better understand the child, it is necessary to know about his way of thinking and seeing himself and his surroundings. The work was born from the desire to find the characteristics of children's artistic expression in the art works of children found in the literature of visual education and to compare the differences in the age and gender of children. The activity was conducted with 28 children ages ranging from 4 years to 6 months to 7 years.