Watercolor Study in C Major No. 2

A small piano étude translated into color. The Watercolor Study in C Major No. 2 triad — C1, C2, E3, G4 — appears here as red toward black, yellow toward yellow-orange and red-orange toward orange, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From C1 to G4, the étude breathes across the full keyboard.
Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, mp — at a gentle, conversational volume, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Rising from C1 (black) to G4 (orange) 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.