Acrylic paint on melatile with David painting with a pallet knife. The faces are (from left to right) a Neanderthal, a renaissance man (inspired by Michael Angelo), to a modern portrait of the artist himself with his head turned 180 degrees away from the viewer.
David painting with acrylic paint completely with his fingers. The faces are the moods of a women, from the Victorian, to the modern, to emotion rage.
David tore apart a video and audio cassette player and laid the parts down and saw a hippo.
One of David’s favorite themes are computers and this one he creates a hand laughing at the computer and his spermatozoa computer mouse.
David painted this live with his jazz pianist friend playing Spanish-inspired music.
This painting was done live with David de Hilster listening to live piano by his pianist friends who was playing “Spanish-like” music.
David imagined the Corcovado Christ Statue in the clouds with moonlight in the clouds and reflecting on the ocean and all the city lights of Rio de Janiero.
David painted this painting live with a jazz pianist friend, inspired by the music and rhythms.
This was a painting that David copied from his grandmother in honor of her own artwork. Although she was not an artist, Helen de Hilster started drawing and painting lessons late in life and when she passed, passed on canvases and paints to David.
David took a photo of his mom with Luanda and made this drawing. It is very special to David because his mom loved Luanda being that she was a granddaughter with the “de Hilster” name. Now that David’s mom is gone, this drawing is very special to David.
