What is line art? Spanish artist Noemi collaborates with TOI to create Ocean Cat

This jigsaw puzzle has 1,000 pieces and is a collaboration between TOI and the Spanish illustrator "Noemi Ibaz Messi". It's called "Cat-Color Changing Game". The colorful background, dark blue cat, and large color block contrast make this puzzle look full of art.

The midnight sea is silent and deep. The silent corals and jellyfish on the deep sea floor grow and spread around. The cat is in this deep sea and roams leisurely. In the darkness, eyes full of light stared at the white plastic bottles floating on the sea.

Oh! Humans, these toys that are not food, really make us hate them!

The Queen of Art who protects the ocean

Noemi lives in Catalonia, Spain, known as the "Kingdom of Art" The seaside city of Ali, she loves the ocean. The most representative ones are the algae groups and coral groups she painted on the seabed. Based on the algae and coral groups in the ocean, she created a series of works containing marine life. Unique and iconic "ocean style". These "ocean-style" art works are mainly created using acrylic paints and markers. The painting process is done in one go, never making sketches, and the delicate painting is done completely based on intuition. Every detail makes people intoxicated, as if they are in the ocean world or strolling on the beach.

The artist Noemi is good at observation and is also fond of fantasy. For her, the ocean is the place where her heart and thoughts belong. In addition to marine creatures, whether they are people or household pets, wild animals can live happily in the ocean in her paintings.

Her work "Ocean Meditation" won the silver medal at the 2021 Guangzhou Contemporary International Watercolor Art Exhibition.

The award-winning work "Sea Thoughts"

She uses lines and circles extensively in her works to imaginatively outline ocean corals, plants and flowers, people and animals, etc. .

In order to achieve the desired color effect, she will change the basic paint from time to time, sometimes it is acrylic paint, sometimes it is alcohol ink, and it is protected by a layer of varnish. Then she started what she thought was the simplest and most comfortable process, using acrylic markers to draw countless lines and circles.

She has never stopped on the road of artistic creation, and was lucky enough to find a painting style that interprets her own - Ocean Pop Art

What is line structure? ——

If you look closely at the complex textures in her works, you can see that Noemi is good at using lines to depict symbols and graphic patterns such as coral colonies and algae colonies. She is full of patience and tolerance for her creations; she cooperates with bold Colors form structures and extensions in repeated lines, so that the theme and characters finally presented in the work will ultimately be inseparable from the ocean atmosphere. The unique marine linear structural elements are the unique feature of Noemi's artistic style.

Spanish artist Noemi Ibaz Messi has been engaged in fashion design for fifteen years and established his own children's clothing brand Darkids. The special thing that makes artists different from designers is the scarcity of "artists". Because the probability of its appearance is extremely low, Noemi Ibaz Messi's artistic attainments and more than ten years of career as a fashion designer are particularly precious.

The artist confessed: "When I was a teenager, all my friends loved to go to parties, but I preferred painting and taking painting classes because I found it more interesting! I want to be with art all my life "As a companion."

The reason why Noemi Ibaz Massey never needs to make a draft and the pen is in place in her paintings is inseparable from her awe and love for nature. She is good at observation and also has no shortage of fantasy. For her, the ocean is the place where her heart and thoughts belong. In addition to marine creatures, whether they are people, household pets, or wild animals, they can all live happily in the ocean in her paintings.

? Marine protectors who speak through their works

Most of Noemi’s early environmental-themed works used marine creatures such as fish and turtles. Since 2018, marine life has been facing severe pressure due to global warming, ranging from climate change to pollution, from the loss of coastal habitats to the over-exploitation of marine species. About a third of commercial fish stocks are overfished, and unsustainable use of marine resources threatens protected marine animals. Noemi has also added protected animals on land to the theme of marine environmental protection, so that animals on the verge of extinction or harmed by humans can be combined with ocean lines in the creation to more vividly make everyone pay attention to marine environmental protection.