Thank you to everyone who came out and attended the Plaza +Art event and helped make it wonderful. Thanks to the organizers Janean Toone and her team, Mayor Overson, and everyone involved in helping the event go so well. The turnout was great, the facility was spacious and beautiful, the food was great, and I met a lot of great people. I think it’s great and inspiring that the city of Taylorsville puts on events like this regularly.

Knowing there’d be a mix of artists at the event (painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, and more), I decided to talk on creativity and share some tips for anyone who’s creative.
I also shared various portraits and told stories about how the images were made, and how I worked to make them better. I talked about balancing the two halves of the creative brain (organization and chaos), controlling what you can while also allowing some chaos for personality to shine through, and how to add light continually to truly capture a person’s inner personality in a portrait.


At the end of the evening, I donated some art prints from my Italy collection for the raffle. We had three winners and I had each winner pick their favorite set of three images each. I wanted each winner to have a set of three that would look great together on their walls. So we ended up giving away nine matted prints that evening.

Thanks again to everyone who came out and made the evening so great. (Photo with Mayor Kristie Overson.)

And until next time, America.
