Artwork Title: 24 Solar Terms: Clear and Bright

24 Solar Terms: Clear and Bright, 2014

Cinyee Chiu

清明 Qingming (Clear and Bright) Qingming means clear and bright, describing the fresh scene that everything grows in this term is clean and clear. Usually it’s between 4/4-4/5. In 2017 it’ll be 4/4. First pentad: The paulownia begins to bloom. Second pentad: Voles transform into quails. (Again this should mean the voles hide and the quails become more active.) Last pentad: Rainbows begin to appear. When yin and yang meet, such as sunlights go through a thin layer of cloud or rain, rainbow shows. From the pentad, the only animal I can find is the quails (not the voles because they disappear.) But this point I start to list out all the animals, I made a list of animals I want to draw, and check briefly all the pentads to decide which to put in. Because if I followed just the pentads, birds will be the represent animal for many terms, which I want to avoid. I want the series to have a nice diversity. Therefore since then, I sometimes pick irrelevant animals base on my personal preferenc

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