Too much purple not working on the first painting, Ruth took a big flat brush to skip paint away on to this discard painting that could look like tulips. Frustrated her plans were not working out, Ruth looked over at this discard canvas to wonder why things were brilliantly happening here, unplanned.

Adding stems now to the purple and touching up what was meant to be discarded, this now became the painting of most interest and was one of the beginning turning points of Ruth's tight figure style, toward loose abstracts of fun, color, and texture amazement.

Not too long later, she invented the Separate Drying Layer, where things just seemed to work for her "off" the canvas, where shapes could be made and let to dry, sculpted into grander forms and then put in a painting dry. This method seemed to make all the neat things happen that just couldn't be made by painting regular wet-into-wet style, like her online video course on how to make a 3D rose from a strip of dried paint. This painting was one of the few that started it all. Frame is included.