William on Mars
What if you dreamt that you suddenly found yourself on Mars?
What would you see?
What would you paint?
Where would your curiosity and your imagination take you?
Come along for this artistic journey of discovery!
William on Mars will be Book Four
of the Artists on Planets Series.
William on Mars Books
The forthcoming Book Four of the Artists on Planets Series, William on Mars, also takes place on the fourth planet in our Solar System, the Red Planet we call Mars. Yet, the young artist who dreams, the paintings we see, and the places visited on Mars are all completely new. The imaginative illustrations show us Mars in a way we have never seen it before: through the eyes and paintings in the signature style of the early 19th century, Romantic landscape painter J. M. W. Turner, known in his time as William Turner.
William’s love of light and shadow, of bold, expressive brushstrokes, and of the sublime beauty of Nature all shine through. The accompanying rhyming verses share William’s joy, his sense of wonder, and his unique artistic spirit. We get to experience amazing paintings of an intense dust storm on Mars’ Chryse Planitia, the awe-inspiring grandeur of Valles Marineris (the largest canyon in the Solar System!), visions of an ancient Martian ocean, the austere beauty of ice-filled Korolev Crater, the frozen dunes of Olympia Undae, the serenity of Mars’ vast North Pole, and other Martian vistas.
Would you like to learn more about the words that create the world of William on Mars? The forthcoming William on Mars: Illustrated Glossary will offer beautifully crafted entries with definitions, word origins, example sentences, and illustrations to help readers learn about the language, science, and art of William on Mars. Etymologies enrich readers’ understanding of the ancient roots of the words we use today. The example sentences, usually in the form of questions, inspire dialogue and contextual learning. Readers of the William on Mars: Illustrated Glossary will delight in learning about new words as they take an amazing photographic journey across the Martian landscape and beyond. The William on Mars: Illustrated Glossary also features paintings by William Turner to illustrate some of the terms from William on Mars.
The words from William on Mars that are defined and illustrated in the glossary are: areology, Atacama, beckoning, billowing, canyon, climes, cosmos, crater, dust storm, full fathom five, genesis, geology, Gobi, grandeur, hues, ice clouds, Mars, mind's eye, Nature, palette, panorama, plains, Pole, ponder, reverie, ruddy, sand dunes, serene, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir William Parry, sphere, sublime, symmetry, tempest, and William Turner.