Watercolor Study in Ab Minor No. 1

A small piano étude translated into color. The Watercolor Study in Ab Minor No. 1 triad — Ab0, D4, A4, B5 — appears here as blue toward black, yellow-green toward yellow and blue-violet, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From Ab0 to B5, the étude breathes across the full keyboard. Some accents — orange and yellow-orange — appear as tensions outside the chord tones.
Played Lent — slowly, meditatively, p — softly, with restraint, legato — the notes flowing into one another. Rising from Ab0 (black) to B5 (yellow) 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.