You may fondly remember painting with watercolor when you were younger, but you may not know that many professional artists use the water based medium.

The Kentucky Watercolor Society is celebrating the art form with Aqua Venture and art show, featuring almost 50 different local and regional artists.

So we're dipping our brushes into watercolor for this week's Arts and Culture segment we call Tapestry.

You know, painted oil and a little of Italy.

But it seems like I'm always working for the painting.

It's like, okay.

I mean, everything is put down there.

I did I had to do I had to think about.

Whereas with watercolor, you feel a little more like you're a partner in it because it's doing things and you're doing things and it's, you know, it's a littl it's responsive as opposed to I'm in control.

It's like, well, obviously I'm not, you know.

There's work that is very representational.

And then there's also work that's very abstract.

And so I think we have a lot of variety in this show.

Water based media is a very versatile art form.

I think that people can find ways to make it very detailed.

You know, if you look at some of the art work pieces, the detail that's involved in some of those pieces is quite amazing.

And then on the other hand, as you as we heard when Charlie was discussing his style, it's very loose and fluid.

So I think that that lends itself to just a more transparent type interpretation when someone's painting in that way.

So I like the variation where you get lots of very detailed work with watercolor, but then you can also get that sort of flowy watercolor, impressionistic or abstract sense as well.

You might have the intention to create a painting and you want it to be what you've imagined.

But sometimes as you're painting, there are things that happen in the painting that you sort of that were unpredictable because of the nature of watercolor.

And you might enjoy it even more as you start to see it evolved in that way.

Which will kind of move around.

You don't want to go start at one place and go, you know, and work it like it's a, you know, machine because you're you're really trying to get the impression of the overall wall.

And and that's done more by movement and of your attention and the movement of your brush across the.

Across the piece.

That's the one thing about watercolor.

Continuing to learn I started that was a great teacher and it's nice to have that guidance.

But then pretty soon, you know, you want to come up with your own things.

And I like to work with a lot of my own personal photographs.

And those are challenging sometimes because there's elements within that artwork where I'm like, Oh, I want to do this rock wall.

And that's difficult because I've never done a rock wall before.

So I might go to somebody like Charles and say, Oh, you know, I see you do a lot of those, so I'd like to learn your techniques.

There's just different aspects to a painting that you want incorporate, and you see people who really do it well.

So you can always pick up tips on how people incorporate those different elements into their artwork.

So there's always something to learn.

Beautiful artwork, indeed.

The exhibit will run at the Artists attic in downtown Lexington until April the 26th.