Dave Cesari shared some beautiful bird photos – You must click the photo page to left to see them – Then return here to see my comments on doodling and sketching:

Here is my story on  Doodling, Sketching & Coloring:

There is nothing childish about Visual Storytelling:
Doodling, Sketching & Coloring. 

I came across this interesting piece of information.- Adult coloring books are on the rise and two of the top ten selling books on Amazon at one time recently were actually adult coloring books.

Let me just start by saying, I wasn’t even aware that there was a demand for adult drawing books. So to discover that they are so hot that bookstores can’t even keep up stocking their shelves was a surprise to me.

Putting pen or pencil to paper helps us think. It can make you develop your ideas, concepts, and emotions. It is a great tool for enhancing creative thinking.

Author Sunni Brown is a  woman on a mission to get adults to do more doodling. In corporate America  she teaches that there are significant connections between doodling and thinking, problem solving, and creativity.

Sunni Brown is an American author in Austin, Texas known for her evangelization of the power and value of doodling.  She is a co-author of “Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, etc.”  It is a book that outlines visual thinking techniques for business.

So, when I have forced downtime like at an airport, nothing I want to watch on TV after dinner, or when I want to avoid some boring housekeeping chores, I grab my iPad and maybe a photograph and begin to creatively think by doodling/sketching. Here are three examples:

I started with a photo of bear statue in front of furniture store in Melbourne Florida – Of course killing time while Gloria did furniture shopping.

You are asking me to pick all three – poor bird.

I have no idea what creative thinking came out of this – or – went into it but I did it – I started with the photo of the white cloud in the middle – But I understand corporate America will pay speakers to stimulate creative thinking by doing such doodle/sketches.

Oh my – Now, I have suggested you can think creatively while swinging or while doodling – but do not try both at the same time.