De Hilster painted two large colorful acrylic swirls on this large canvas and then applied dark oil paint on top. The oil paint allowed de Hilster to draw into the canvas using a piece of metal coat hanger. The entire painting is done from memory and took only two hours to make. De Hilster appears two times in the painting, one with his wife Doris.
The Two Brothers are mountains at the end of Rio’s famous Ipanema Beach. This was a very productive period by de Hilster where he was recalling scenes from Rio. These were all done from within de Hilster’s memory.
De Hilster drawing in Rio de Janeiro in his sketchbook.
De Hilster mixes computer programming with graffiti in English and Portuguese.
De Hilster was inspired by the scene of eating on the famous sidewalks of Copacabana, reading the newspaper, and having a street kid begging for money.
Painted to live music played by a friend who is a jazz pianist.
De Hilster drew this from a photo he took of Doris, her Mother Dona Nadir, and Luanda.
De Hilster was in his period of drawing into paint with a coat hanger and was inspired to draw an old style TV and the rest simply came. This was a time where de Hilster continued to break his rules of beautiful line drawings to be crude.
This painting was painted live to a live jazz piano performance in 1993. De Hilster considers this painting a masterwork which he describes as a “perfect composition”.
David de Hilster took a summer art class in the 8th grade where his teacher was doing geometric paintings. David copied his teacher’s style who said of David: “David is paintiing at a 12th grade or college level.
