One of the interesting aspects of children’s paintings is transparency.
Transparency is the quality in children's painting that able the child to show the inside and outside, appear and hidden parts of things and characters at the same time. The same thing has been seen in religious eras especially in Persian Miniatures paintings, and also many illustrators have used this characteristic in their works. Using this method has helped illustrators make the best use of little space of their paper and expand the vision of the picture.
Based on studies in this article which has done in descriptive method, there are several kinds of transparency in illustrations which after surveying put in categories in this essay.
The results of this research has shown the influence of children’s painting and Persian miniatures in contemporary illustrations and also has made a codified form in different kinds of transparency in illustration which can underlie the new horizons in illustration.