How to make a QGrpahicsView background blinking in R - G - B every second

As the title says I am trying to have my QGraphicsView blinking 1 second in red, 1 second in green and 1 second in blue and after that the loop start over again. After doing a lot of research in the past couple of days I didn't have a lot of luck as the main problem is that I am not sure I need to subclass QGraphicsView to obtain the effect I am looking for. I came across some references that I inserted below saying that for this type of problems QPropertyAnimation seems to be the right direction. Although setting a QTimer could also be a choice.

Below the small verifiable example. I wrote minimal code:

mainwindow.h

#ifndef MAINWINDOW_H
#define MAINWINDOW_H

#include <QMainWindow>
#include <QGraphicsView>
#include <QGraphicsScene>
#include <QPropertyAnimation>

QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
namespace Ui { class MainWindow; }
QT_END_NAMESPACE

class MainWindow : public QMainWindow
{
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    MainWindow(QWidget *parent = nullptr);
    ~MainWindow();

private:
    Ui::MainWindow *ui;
    QGraphicsView *mView;
    QGraphicsScene *mScene;
    QPropertyAnimation *mAnimation;
};
#endif // MAINWINDOW_H

**mainwindow.cpp

#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"
#include <QTimer>

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
    : QMainWindow(parent)
    , ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);
    mView = new QGraphicsView();
    mScene = new QGraphicsScene();
    ui->graphicsView->setScene(mScene);
    // Starting with a gray background
    ui->graphicsView->setBackgroundBrush(QColor(Qt::gray));

    // Setting a timer that changes the color every second
    QTimer *timer = new QTimer(this);
    connect(timer, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(update()));
    timer->start(1000);

}

MainWindow::~MainWindow()
{
    delete ui;
}

mygraphicsview.h

#ifndef MYGRAPHICSVIEW_H
#define MYGRAPHICSVIEW_H
#include <QGraphicsView>
class MyGraphicsView : public QGraphicsView
{
public:
    MyGraphicsView();
};

#endif // MYGRAPHICSVIEW_H

**mygraphicsview.cpp

#include "mygraphicsview.h"

MyGraphicsView::MyGraphicsView()
{}

main.cpp

#include "mainwindow.h"
#include <QApplication>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
    MainWindow w;
    w.show();
    return a.exec();
}

In case you would like to see the .ui I am also sharing the file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui version="4.0">
 <class>MainWindow</class>
 <widget class="QMainWindow" name="MainWindow">
  <property name="geometry">
   <rect>
    <x>0</x>
    <y>0</y>
    <width>277</width>
    <height>228</height>
   </rect>
  </property>
  <property name="windowTitle">
   <string>MainWindow</string>
  </property>
  <widget class="QWidget" name="centralwidget">
   <layout class="QGridLayout" name="gridLayout">
    <item row="0" column="0">
     <widget class="QGraphicsView" name="graphicsView"/>
    </item>
   </layout>
  </widget>
  <widget class="QMenuBar" name="menubar">
   <property name="geometry">
    <rect>
     <x>0</x>
     <y>0</y>
     <width>277</width>
     <height>22</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
  </widget>
  <widget class="QStatusBar" name="statusbar"/>
 </widget>
 <resources/>
 <connections/>
</ui>

I have been researching the possibility to have a QGraphicsView blinking 1 second in red, 1 second in green and 1 second in blue and after that the loop start over again.

The only source I was able to find providing a complete example was in PyQt, for which I am not familiar with. The source is here and also this one.

The most important clue I got out of these examples is that, in particluar the last one, uses QState and QStateMachine. I am not familiar at all with these two features of Qt though and am struggling a little bit because of that.

Also I came across this partial example, and the good thing of this is that I learned how to set the QTimer useful for the 1s interval blinking.

Also because I am dealing with a QGraphicsView I have the feeling that void paintEvent(QPaintEvent *) override should be used.

Thank you very much for pointing in the right direction and solve this issue.