Watercolor Study in F Minor No. 3

A small piano étude translated into color. The Watercolor Study in F Minor No. 3 triad — F2, D4, F4, F5 — appears here as red-violet toward gray, blue and red, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From F2 to F5, the étude breathes across the full keyboard. Some accents — orange — appear as tensions outside the chord tones.
Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, mp — at a gentle, conversational volume, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Rising from F2 (black) to F5 (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.