Announcing
AQUEOUS 2025

The Kentucky Watercolor Society
Invites You to Submit Your Current Best Work For This Year’s National Juried Exhibition

Tim Oliver, Aqueous 2025, juror

Tim Oliver is a Landscape Architect and owner of a design/build landscape firm in Lubbock, Texas. Tim holds Signature membership in the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society and the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies.

Tim’s paintings are collected both regionally and nationally and he has won numerous juried exhibition, invitational exhibition and plein air competition awards. He is a founding member and contributor to Urban Sketchers Lubbock and a past instructor, demo artist and field painter at The Plein Air Convention and Expo. Tim is active teaching workshops and doing watercolor demos for watercolor societies across the nation. His work has appeared in Watercolor Artist Magazine, Plein Air Magazine, The Art of Watercolor as well as others.

Entry Deadline: July 28, 2025

AWARDS :

Previous prizes annually have averaged $8,000 in cash and materials.

SIGNATURE MEMBERSHIP :

Artist Signature Membership is given to a KWS member who has been accepted into three Aqueous exhibitions while maintaining continuous membership without lapse.

All KWS Signature members are eligible for the KWS Signature Artist Award.

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WORKSHOP

Landscapes in watercolor with tim oliver

September 9-11, 2025
ArtsPlace
161 N Mill Street, Lexington, Ky 40507

In this workshop, we will explore the amazing medium of watercolor together. The workshop will be geared toward the beginning to intermediate painter. Advanced painters will also enjoy the workshop and be excited to see new and different approaches. Some familiarity with the medium will be helpful and allow you to jump in and immediately begin learning and enjoying the workshop. It is my desire that the workshop be a fun, creative, casual and rewarding experience for all. I love to foster a relaxed environment of learning with all skill levels working toward a common goal…to become a better painter! No judgement or unwanted critique is allowed.

Our goal will NOT be to create workshop masterpieces to take home to show our friends and family! We may indeed create respectable works or we may just create enthusiastic messes, but I’m certain we will have fun and learn processes and practices that will propel us to greater works in the future with less frustration and more joy!

Watercolor has a reputation for being a difficult and frustrating medium. This can certainly be the case if one does not understand and implement some basic fundamentals and processes. Through conversation, demonstration and thoughtful critique we will unlock some of those frustrating mysteries that we all experience.

I will provide subject material for our painting sessions and will provide demonstrations of my process. Experienced painters are welcomed to bring their own image references to paint if they would like. We will focus on landscapes, city views and perhaps a seascape or two. We will also spend time working in our sketchbooks as we plan our paintings. We’ll talk about color theory, value structure, composition, simplification and perspective. We’ll cover paint mixing, brush strokes and examine the common mistakes that we all make.

This workshop is all about you and your individual artistic journey! Come ready to dive straight in! I will be 100% available over our time together for individual instruction and critique. I will be at your disposal! Together, we will become better painters! I hope to see you there!

To see more of Tim’s work go to https://www.timoliverart.com

Workshop cost: $350 for KWS Members; $375 for Non Members.

For questions, contact : Manish Rajguru - manish.rajguru@gmail.com