As artist Jenna Ward wandered Main Street in Salt Lake City last week, she saw a man lounging and enjoying his drink at a table outside Eva’s Bakery. That’s a perfect way to spend a fall morning, she thought, picking her spot to paint. As she was setting up, a “gaggle of women” on a Segway tour zipped by and made her laugh.
“I was energized being out on a busy sidewalk with so much going on around me,” she said. “I had to remind myself to keep working or I would have spent the whole time watching people and enjoying conversations with strangers.