Watercolor Study in A Major No. 1

A small piano étude translated into color. The Watercolor Study in A Major No. 1 triad — A1, C#2, E3, A4, A5 — appears here as yellow-orange toward gray, blue-green and yellow, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From A1 to A5, the étude breathes across the full keyboard.
Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, p — softly, with restraint, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Rising from A1 (black) to A5 (gray) at the crest, the line folds back — an arch, a breath held and released. Arnaud wrote it in four, the pulse walks with a steady, even tread.
This painting belongs to my Harmonic Crossing series, an ongoing practice of translating harmonic relationships into visual form. Each variation is a study — direct, unadorned, focused on the essential character of the chord.