Adrian C. Sinnott's Traveling Sketches

I’m donating a piece of work from one of my books, “Magnets,” to an auction in Ireland. This is to assist a Russian artist who is married to an Irishman and living in Dublin. She was viciously attacked by a burglar and the attacker cut off most of the fingers from her drawing hand. You can read about her here in the Irish Times. The doctors were able to reattach her middle finger but not the others. Adams Blackrock auction house is setting up an auction to raise some money to help with her rehabilitation.

This is the piece I’m donating along with a signed copy of the book (click for a large image):

Polar bears and penguins explaining how magnets work!

Well, sort of. Whenever I have time to work on a project of my own, it always seems to take longer to get started than when it’s for a paying client. With all the things that need fixing around me, it’s easier to go off in another direction than to sit down and attempt to be brilliant. Something about “Necessity being the mother of invention.” When there’s an anxious client looming, you don’t want to disappoint. Have to remind myself that I’m an anxious client, too.

Hmm, work on my book, fix the leaking plumbing, get the car running, paint the walls, reassemble the bathrooms . . .