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Tom walked on, and encountered a pharoah. Tom made Pharoah a gift of his sketch of the mountains, but was surprised when Pharoah called Tom's art "primitive," adding that it looked like something one of the royal daughters might scribble!

Tom defended his work and pointed out that the elements harmonize and the effect is natural and artistic. "Who cares how trees grow in nature?" Pharoah roared, and decreed that Tom should study with the palace artisans until he understood how trees should grow, how mountains should stand, and how the sun should shine, if it were fit to shine on Egypt.

After some years of study, Tom produced this sketch using the same elements of trees, sun and mountain, which pleased Pharoah a great deal. In it, Tom depicted Pharoah's twin daughters picking dates, accompanied by a servant woman. Tom understood that this new method of painting was very different than what he had learned earlier. Some of the rules had changed, and others remained the same. He wondered if there was a way to produce a painting that would conform to the various systems of rules he had learned, yet still be pleasing to both Pharoah and himself?