For a city its size.

Owensboro has a thriving arts community that includes a world renowned artist who famously paints portraits upside down in front of massive crowds.

Our Kelcey Starks introduces us to Aaron Kaiser.

I just do the things that I like doing and don't really put a title on any of it.

Aaron Kaiser doesn't call himself an artist.

In fact, he says he never had any formal art education or interest in school.

He picked up a paintbrush to create his first portrait out of necessity.

I got started in art based on my dad.

He got cancer.

He didn't have health insurance.

Life insurance.

So I was trying to figure out a way to help him pay for his chemo treatments.

And I Google quick ways to make money.

And one of them was, if you could paint, then you could sell paintings.

And so the next day, I started painting.

Born and raised in Owensboro, Aaron Kaiser has since traveled around the world not only creating art, but a unique kind of performance art.

What I do is really weird because it's set up like a like a bands playing.

But I'm going to paint and then the amount of people that show up to watch bands play come and watch me paint.

It's speed painting.

In less than 10 minutes, he creates what looks like abstract art at the end, flipping it over to reveal a portrait to an audience in awe.

Of the precious souls.

I started to learn to paint upside down because I didn't have to remember faces.

I can remember shapes.

I can't remember what someone looks like well enough to paint them.

But I can tell you the shapes of their face well enough to paint them.

So that's I kind of compartmentalize each part of the face as a different shape and scale.

It is a unique talent that has taken Aaron Kaiser to perform all over the country, including Miami, Chicago and Las Vegas.

But it is in his hometown of Owensboro, where he feels most comfortable creating art.

I don't think I would have ever became a painter if he would have put me in a city larger.

I tell people all the time, like, I'll travel all over and I always tell them to come to Owensboro and create for a little bit.

You don't have the hustle and bustle of everywhere else.

You don't have two or three hour traffic jams.

Like you can get to a studio and work and be quiet and all these things.

So like I think Owensboro is a great place to birth creativity.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Kelsey Starks.