Taronites

My first not abstract art out of Verve. It's been a real struggle for me, my muscle memory of Photoshop and Mac key commands kept interfering. At one point I had a split screen, with the upper third showing a magnified part of the lower two-thirds. No Idea how I triggered that. I was to afraid to get rid of it, so finished working that way. There where nice bumpy bristle traces in the beginning, but I screwed up the brush somehow. Every brush stroke looked like noise! Turning the Layer bump down to almost nothing helped to save the picture in the end.

What an elegant painting and such curious strength! I'm fascinated by it, almost don't know how best to describe my sensation?! GREAT PIECE!
As for the troubles...uh...HUH? That really sounds like some wacked out stuff, particularly the zoom weirdness, that makes me wonder, if it had anything to do with Verve or whether you accidentally activated windows magnification?! I know you're working on a mac via bootcamp, so it could very well be that you hit the equivalent of the [windows key] and [+] or [-] by accident, probably wanting to change the brush size?!
Anyway... next time that happens, hit [windows key]+[escape] to exit the windows magnifier again!

The noise issue you've had may well have been a canvas texture interaction you didn't expect. Brush #9 recognizes the canvas texture during a stroke, unlike the other brushes. When you're aware of it, you can take advantage of it plenty of times, but when you didn't expect it, well.... yeah, that could be distracting. However, in the upcoming release things are mildly different. While that particular thing may still be the same, but you'll see. I'm pretty excited!

Anyway, I'm SUPER HAPPY to see you show up again and come with such an inspiring painting, when it comes to color choices! I'm sure, once you get more comfortable with it, you'll gain greater control again to tackle more confidently lighting and textures. But nothing takes away from the elegance of it and the 1920's touch that I so love!

very nice ...

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Elegant.

Very pretty

Elegant, very pretty hmmm those have been used. How about Outstanding! I am glad you stuck with it because its a joy to behold

Phone doodle

Ups, didn't see all the kind comments … THANK YOU ALL!!

Don't think for a second your stuff will go unnoticed here!
...why do I get an eery Alice in Wonderland feeling from this?

Ahh, I see you lost yourself in finding forms in fluid.
Isn't that fun?
I really like your flower too.
As taron said, very elegant.