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Book review: Matilda Tristram's My Year in Small Drawings

[Book review by James Hobbs.] The second half of the title of Matilda Tristram’s new book My Year in Small Drawings – Notice, Draw, Appreciate – will ring true with any urban sketcher. It is what happens every time we stop to draw: we recognise the things so easily overlooked, the things the eye glides over if we pass by at an everyday pace. This is a book that aims to make you stop, look and draw more often, and perhaps surprise yourself.

My Year in Small Drawings (Leaping Hare Books) is a book you draw in: divided into 52 themes, some more seasonal than others, its aim is to inspire us to make lots of small drawings within it throughout the seasons of the year. Themes range across leafy trees, telephone poles, seeds, rooftops, bicycles, street corners, sunsets, buds and construction sites. Alongside Tristram’s own direct and charming examples on each theme are three pages of grids within which readers add their own small (4x4cm) drawings.

It’s a small book (although thick at 240 pages long) that inspires small drawings of often small things. In a section at the front Tristram gives encouraging words about drawing, such as its purpose, how to start, embracing imperfection, and the different mediums. There’s no right or wrong way to use the book, she writes, but “you probably won’t feel as much pressure about doing a ‘good drawing’ if you’re producing plenty of them all the time”.

The scale of the book and its ethos of “little and often” suggest it’s ideal for someone needing some impetus to draw more and improve, and if you take this book from your bag or pocket to use every day, it’s hard to see how you could fail in that aim. By its completion, the gloriously successful drawings will be in among the equally glorious failures, and so we trace our development.

This book should be put in context: Tristram’s autobiographical comic book-style diary, Probably Nothing: A Diary of Not-Your-Average Nine Months (Penguin, 2004), was written after she was diagnosed with cancer and undergoing treatment while pregnant. She is an award-winning writer, animator, illustrator and lecturer. This book encourages you to draw, draw lots, and make the most of each day, as she evidently does. Who could argue with that?

My Year in Small Drawings is published in the UK on 17 August 2017 and in the US on 5 September 2017. There’s more about Matilda Tristram at http://ift.tt/12C19Pm.

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