“…The raw material for children's drawings consists of what they feel, experience, know, understand, or can imagine (Nielsen, 2012). The drawings can, therefore, be considered articulations of feelings, experiences, and meanings the children have not yet thematized (Bastrup-Madsen, 2001;Funch, 1996), albeit what the pictures express is also influenced by the children's drawing skills, the level of their ability to abstract, and their knowledge of visual cultural codes in the world around them. Children learn to use visual cultural codes in the way they express themselves, both when drawing at home and in daycare institutions, but also when they encounter and use other visual cultural idioms, for example, in colloquial language, body language, and media images (Nielsen, 2012).…”