BrittCoxon on "filtering terms from get_terms"

I have two custom taxonomies, one called painting_tag and the other galleries. I'm working on an archive page for galleries.

At the top of the page I've got a list of tags from painting_tag I'm using to filter these posts further. Right now the list shows all painting_tag tags used by my posts. I'd like it to show only tags that are used by the posts in the archive.

I know in $args there are exclude and include but I've failed to get them to do the job.

$terms = get_terms('painting_tag', $args);
        $count = count($terms);
        if ( $count > 0 ){
            foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
                echo "<li><a href='javascript:void(0)' data-filter='.".$term->slug."'>" . $term->name . "</a></li>\n";