Thanks to Kurt who reminded me that I need to get going on my paintings, even though it was unintentional on his part. 

I wasn't happy with the background of this work so I'm stripping it off with my electric eraser, sanding it lightly to bring back some of the tooth of the paper and starting fresh.  To make black for this work I'm using  mainly Tuscan red and Indigo blue.  There's also a little brown in there in places too.  As I like to work in small bits I went ahead and created the black in some places to see what it would look like.  As it turns out, I actually like it with the black and red pattern and will maybe continue on that way.  If at the end I don't like it I can continue the layering to finish up the entire background in black.  I also have to still work the second arm attached to the hand in there somehow.  Sigh.

Anyhow, that puts me behind on the other two I started.  Hopefully this one will be ready to go to the framers in the next few days and I can move on to the next ones I've started.