Venturing Back to Painting

My boss at the art studio challenged me to paint something. We had this big (3'x3') painting on the wall of a butterfly. It wasn't a very good looking painting- I should have taken a before picture. The butterfly was yellow on a blue background and the whole thing had been outlined in thick black. Ugly.

So the challenge given to me was to paint something on to this canvas that is Robert Bateman inspired (our studio will be offering a Robert Bateman kids
Summer camp). This is what I came up with.

My life has been so crazy lately that I haven't even had a chance to paint anything - probably for about 3 months now! It's been nice to get back into it again.