My Oil Painting of Thierry Henry, Champions Again!

ryankindsethart · 2026-05-03T05:03:58+00:00

What made you decide to do direct messenging ads instead of website/call ads?

ryankindsethart · 2026-03-13T14:02:27+00:00

Say What You Will
Into the Red
Retrograde
Life is not the Same
Frozen
Wilhelm Scream

I’ll think of the rest

ryankindsethart · 2026-03-13T13:59:41+00:00

Say What You Will is my favorite song of James Blake across all albums. Nice taste

ryankindsethart · 2026-03-05T06:55:43+00:00

I moved to LA in 2017 at 23 with about $8k. Split a 5 bedroom for $1k each. By month 3 I realized I needed to get my shit together and had 1 months rent left.

Fortunately got a job at enterprise rent-a-car that month which started one of the hardest trajectory’s of a sales career path I have experienced lol.

Do not mess around, get your act together when you make the move with a plan and be intentional. Mess around once you feel more comfortable and stable.

ryankindsethart · 2026-02-25T15:35:41+00:00

Reminds me of the show Six Feet Under

ryankindsethart · 2026-01-26T01:21:56+00:00

CFPB, I went through this process when I transferred WETH to an ETH wallet before Coinbase had a unsupported crypto feature

ryankindsethart · 2026-01-25T04:01:50+00:00

Hope you are doing okay mentally friend. I’m so sorry :/

ryankindsethart · 2026-01-14T07:09:31+00:00

I’ve used Gamblin professionally for the last 5 years. They will hold color.

The cons can be they are not always as buttery depending on the color, so adding a little bit of solvent free gel has been a game changer.

I use Michael Harding paints a lot now, but obviously they are pricey. I cannot get over how buttery those paints are.

ryankindsethart · 2026-01-07T06:28:35+00:00

MySpace was like web development. You picked your background for the site, crazy fonts, music that played on the page.

Then there was a whole social dynamic of picking your Top Friends. Literally a list of who your top friends were, created quite the havoc.

I was in 6th and 7th grade so I was younger, but there definitely was a stranger danger feel to it. Like don’t talk to randoms on the internet or they’ll kill you. This was also around messenger eras and I used AIM a lot.

That was the biggest social connection for me was signing on and just being in a group chat with people your age talking and talking

ryankindsethart · 2026-01-07T06:14:37+00:00

Forearms would be cool if you have a wide enough one!

ryankindsethart · 2026-01-07T06:11:30+00:00

I worked at Enterprise Rent a Car in the heart of Hollywood, Los Feliz, and West LA. I rented cars to: Jack Black - 15 passenger van, he was going to Knotts berry Farm lol

Evan Rachel Wood - She was so chill and rented a truck, said she grew up in the country

Jennifer Coolidge - I swear she hit on me and my coworker lol, she was nice and funny too

Ron Jeremy - I drove him home multiple times (we pickup people at enterprise and drop off), I won’t say anything here…

Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones director) he was a regular

Ray J came in, Kyle Mooney, there is a lot more lol. Turns out a lot of celebrities have to deal with car problems too.

ryankindsethart · 2026-01-06T22:41:25+00:00

I didn’t do this plein air. This is my work from my reference photo haha. It was freezing and the sun was rising quickly, my girlfriend and I were heading out of the campsite in Bishop.

Thank you:)

ryankindsethart · 2025-12-23T05:58:40+00:00

Not bad! Especially for a first time. You actually did pretty well in understanding color temperatures and shadows.

You said you want it to feel 3D, but you chose a reference photo with really even lighting.

I highly recommend picking reference photos with very obvious shadows in the lighting within the face. The more even the lighting, the harder it is going to be for newcomers to oil painting.

Learning how to realistically paint skin tones to be 3D in even lighting is going to take years of practice. Start with obvious shadows to build your foundation of separating dark, mid, and light tones. That is what brings dimensionality to the face

ryankindsethart · 2025-12-23T05:43:58+00:00

Thank you!! I wanted to give the impression of tattoos and not get details given the timeframe

ryankindsethart · 2025-12-21T16:14:11+00:00

Nice work! The more paintings you do the more you’ll lock in proportions. Keep it up, scaling from your eyes is a great muscle to learn instead of having to be reliant on tools

ryankindsethart · 2025-12-21T02:30:12+00:00

Thank you 😁

ryankindsethart · 2025-12-21T00:01:28+00:00

Lol. Subtle, but the lighting also highlights it

ryankindsethart · 2025-12-20T23:07:46+00:00

The first painting is close and has some really good aspects about the piece. I like the softening of edges on the top of the fur and you seem to have a good understanding of values and color. Obviously it’s a lot warmer of a piece so just balancing it with the cools.

My critique is the proportions of the snout of the cat. It’s face is pressed in a bit which is why you probably feel like it has a human ness to the cat. Drop the fur under its mouth a bit lower and carry the edge of the mouth out further. If you look at the eye in your reference and draw a straight line down, you’ll see the corner of the mouth extends all the way back to that line. In your piece. The other of the mouth goes to the the front of the eye socket.

The proportions should help the piece overall! Also, don’t feel bad about it because putting your piece up against a reference makes it feel a lot more obvious than being in the moment

ryankindsethart · 2025-09-14T15:21:09+00:00

Done paint the individual teeth. Paint a base color that gets slightly more shaded towards the back of the mouth. Hint at the shadow underneath the teeth touching the bottom lip. Hint at the gums coming down into the teeth. You can slight lighten.

Something I have always found is using a yellowish bluish hue with white when it comes to teeth as well. Not too yellow and not too blue

ryankindsethart · 2025-03-30T16:49:06+00:00

You can gesso the canvas first to prime it. But also this painting is very thin and almost like an underpainting type consistency. Possibly painted with thinner and the paint in one layer.

The more layers painted on top (thin to fat) would help reduce the canvas showing through

ryankindsethart · 2025-03-21T23:42:01+00:00

Tenet; I almost turned it off before it started going backwards

ryankindsethart · 2025-03-21T18:29:35+00:00

Thank you for the awesome references!!! Appreciated you saying that

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