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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.

And one day,just like that-you’ll rediscover your lightYou’ll embrace your inner warrior You’ll sn**ch your power back A...
20/08/2026

And one day,just like that-
you’ll rediscover your light
You’ll embrace your inner warrior
You’ll sn**ch your power back
And the whole game will change

This portrait was done with a charcoal stick , drawn from life , as shown on the grey fabriano paper . Is this enough? T...
09/08/2026

This portrait was done with a charcoal stick , drawn from life , as shown on the grey fabriano
paper . Is this enough? The character of a line ?

Bringing colour with pastel sticks - the model is a bright effervescent person , neon pink expresses this .
The portrait was given an award at Hibiscus Coast Art Group recently .

My charcoal lines were made drawing from life . Colour brings more expressiveness .It’s difficult to keep the sensi...
03/08/2026

My charcoal lines were made drawing from life . Colour brings more expressiveness .
It’s difficult to keep the sensitivity of a face using of strong fluorescent colour .

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.

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