locust leaves

I picked up some yellow locust leaves on the walk recently and put them in my flower press to dry. When I checked on them they had all fallen off the stems. I thought I'd make a painting of them just as they appeared there; that's the painting below which, I don't know, lacked something.

Then for some reason I decided to make a collage in my phone of two photos of the painting, which is above, and which I kind of like ... 

This is another collage of the two photos which is not as successful. It reminds me of one of those Pennsylvania Dutch signs.