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Coila Davies Art Coila Art Page was created as a place to keep track of experiences ,interests and feelings that have been behind the paintings .

My muse is nature , my mediums are cold wax ,oils ,pigments ,oil pastel watercolour.

A portrait in charcoal,from life , 2026 . We are here so briefly .30,000 years ago artists made handprints ,they were th...
06/06/2026

A portrait in charcoal,from life , 2026 . We are here so briefly .
30,000 years ago artists made handprints ,they were the artist and the subject . Perhaps they were saying I am human ,I was there .
Today A.I makes portraits of people who never existed .

I’ve been looking through books about Van Gogh’s approach to portraiture-he did dozens.He said portraiture was the only ...
22/05/2026

I’ve been looking through books about Van Gogh’s approach to portraiture-he did dozens.
He said portraiture was the only thing that moved him . In 1888 he wrote “I’d like to paint portraits which would appear like apparitions to people in a hundred years time . He didn’t care about making people look “accurate “ in a photographic sense. He said he wanted to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolise .

Our portrait group is back in a cafe in Mt Eden . Gorgeous back room upstairs filled with light streaming in through old...
11/05/2026

Our portrait group is back in a cafe in Mt Eden . Gorgeous back room upstairs filled with light streaming in through old wooden window frames.
Fragrant coffee , a young Chilean man willing to be drawn by our portraitists .

Faces don’t “contain” meaning like words on a page .Your brain creates meaning from facial movements based on context,pa...
03/05/2026

Faces don’t “contain” meaning like words on a page .Your brain creates meaning from facial movements based on context,past experiences,culture .
But we still treat faces as if they’re transparent windows into the mind .
Judgement on whether to trust a stranger happens before conscious thought . It sticky and hard to reverse

Another model in the cafe .Within milliseconds,humans make snap judgements about traits like friendliness, competence,an...
25/04/2026

Another model in the cafe .
Within milliseconds,humans make snap judgements about traits like friendliness, competence,and social status from faces .

Our model was from Chile - with Spanish blood . We drew in a cafe in the city. He said “This is me “ when he viewed my ...
17/04/2026

Our model was from Chile - with Spanish blood .
We drew in a cafe in the city.
He said “This is me “ when he viewed my drawings.
It’s an interesting thing , capturing a likeness.

Drawn from life - The yellow and black lines reminded me of the artist Ludwig Bemelmans - who drew Madeleine in Paris st...
20/03/2026

Drawn from life - The yellow and black lines reminded me of the artist Ludwig Bemelmans - who drew Madeleine in Paris stories I loved and still do . He only used yellows and linework , mainly painting outside the lines
Maybe it is possible to only use yellow and charcoal lines ?
Picasso said when I haven’t any blue I use yellow

Esto animo -from the soul
16/03/2026

Esto animo -from the soul

Esto quodes -be what you are
16/03/2026

Esto quodes -be what you are

In art making ,there is a principle that nothing is completely observed and nothing is completely imagined
13/02/2026

In art making ,there is a principle that nothing is completely observed and nothing is completely imagined

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