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.
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”.
This painting was inspired by the first time David saw a performance of Cirque du Soleil with his best friend and family.
David de Hilster went to the Natural History Museum in downtown Rio de Janeiro and sketched some statues to practice drawing the human form. The year on the drawing is in error. The actual year was 1987.
This is a quick sketch of the famous electric street car that rides on the archway in downtown Rio.
