In the 1930s, Driggs, after executing five major Precisionist works, abandoned the style - a decision that she may have later regretted. In fact, she concentrated more on "whimsical watercolors and figurative paintings as well as murals for the PWPA." It was a loving but tumultuous marriage and their styles began to directly influence each other. Serendipitously, in 1940, their only child, Merriman, was playing with watercolors and began to rip paper and to paint the pieces. From this, Elsie got the idea of creating watercolor collages, which became a major focus of her work. She then began to create canvas collages, in which she would attach cutout pieces of canvas to a canvas, and then paint over them with oil paint. This idea was picked up by Lee, who began to incorporate the same process in both his paintings and his frames. These were adventurous works, which merit reconsideration.