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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀
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Watercolor space and science artist, geology nerd. 💜 Rocks, gems, cats, spaceflight, Sailor Moon, Star Wars. IAAA Artist. Cancer survivor. Internet dinosaur. STS-133 NASA Tweetup alum. Medford, OR. She/her. Ally. Rebel. https://linktr.ee/manyfaceted
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Today is Sunday and what the world needs is a chonky baby rolling around in a sunbeam. Enjoy our Pippin being his fluffy self. #cats #catsky
November 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Flashing my beliefs at the office today, courtesy of @surlyamy.bsky.social 😘 (I just got a Make Art pendant as well but it matches better with my Friday scrub top.)
A woman with long curly blonde hair and pinkish glasses, wearing a dark blue scrub top and a light blue round glazed ceramic pendant with “Science Saves Lives” stamped onto it in black letters on a black cord. Behind her on the wall are various spooky decorations and a holo glitter cardboard skeleton, which we’re thinking of keeping beyond Halloween because it is, in fact, rad.
October 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge day 22: #LunarLanding - the shadow of the #Apollo11 lunar lander, Eagle. #watercolor on handmade cotton paper.

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SHADOW OF THE EAGLE by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor lunar landscape in purples and faint golds against a dark indigo sky. A dark purple shadow of the Apollo 11 lunar lander stretches across the bumpy surface.
October 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge day 21: #Star - a view of Orion as seen by JWST. Pearlescent #watercolor on black paper.

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ORION ILLUMINATED by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black of the star-forming regions in the Orion Nebula, as seen by the NIRCam instrument of the James Webb Space Telescope on September 11, 2022. The image shows the Orion Bar, a dense wall of dust and gas containing a bright star, θ2 Orionis A. Complex structures are revealed in wavelengths of infrared radiation from ionized and molecular gases, dust, and scattered starlight.
October 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge day 20: #Telescope - I always come back to Hubble imagery, even though newer telescopes like JWST see more clearly in other wavelengths—this was the view of the universe that inspired me. Pearlescent #watercolor on black paper.

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SPECTRAL LAGOON by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting using pearlescent paints on black paper, depicting the Lagoon Nebula as images by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2018, seen as a cloudy blue, purple and reddish background with a foreground cascade of rainbow spectrum colors.
October 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge day 15: #BlackHole - one I did last year but I like how it came out (and it sure does shimmer in the light!)

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GRAVITY SWALLOWS LIGHT by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black paper of a black hole, shown with black center ringed by metallic silver paint, which swirls clockwise outwards in ribbons of reds, oranges, pinks and golds, with tinges of black.
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Huzzah, it’s #PortfolioDay !

I’m Danielle and I paint and illustrate spacecraft, planets, and interesting landscapes in watercolor and ink. Fond of ink textures and pointillism. No AI here, just space and rocks/geology. 🪐🪨🚀

Prints and originals available at planetaryartist.com

Thanks for looking!
DUST OF OSIRIS by Danielle Rose Baker. A painting of the top-down view of the opened sample return capsule from the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu. Circular sections and hexagonal bolts are seen among the rocky material in the middle ring, framed by lotus flower motifs and patterned circles with geometric ink designs drawn in an ancient Egyptian style with gold accents. A ring of painted turquoise, lapis and carnelian rectangles accented with gold surrounds the inkwork. Inspired by the decorative motifs of Tutankhamen’s treasures, and the Art Deco-tinged Egyptian Revival movement that arose from the discovery of said treasures. DIANA PIERCES THE AZURE SKY by Danielle Rose Baker. An ink illustration of a Saturn V rocket and launch tower during the launch of Apollo IV. The top two-thirds is a roiling sky of clouds rendered in blue, dark teal and navy inks, some with shimmering effects. Outlined against this, the launch tower is seen in shades of brown-orange. The rocket is bathed in warm light and yellow-tinged exhaust expands below, with dark shapes outlining the base of the launch pad. HUES OF VENUS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent false-color watercolor painting on black paper of the cloudy atmosphere of Venus as seen by the JAXA Atatsuki spacecraft in 2020. In this view, the clouds are seen in swirls and ribbons of gold and dark blue, combining to blue-grays. UBEHEBE CRATER by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of Ubehebe Crater at Death Valley National Park. An explosive volcanic crater dusted with snow against an overcast sky. The crater wall has many layers, in shades of brown, tan and orange. The foreground is darker brown, with lighter splotches of snow.
October 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge day 11: #Asteroid - FAREWELL TO BENNU, one of my favorite recent #watercolor paintings, showing the dusty surface of #Bennu with a tiny #OSIRIS-REx heading home to earth in the corner.

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FAREWELL TO BENNU by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of asteroid Bennu, trailing debris from the left, with an abstract mottled background in navy, purples and blacks. The sun, spacecraft OSIRIS-REx and a distant Earth are seen on the right-hand side.
October 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Okay #geology and #space friends, I need opinions. Working on a new shirt/sticker design for @rckhnd.com . Bottom is the first text I came up with, but then I thought, NASA is built on acronyms so ROCKS should be an ACRONYM. (Maybe not the best acronym—open to suggestions.)

Which do you prefer?
Photo of my monitor showing two versions of a t-shirt design. The word “ROCKS” is shown in red in the style of the NASA “worm” logo. The top version has black text underneath that reads “Rockhounding Obsessed Cool Kids Society” (hello, I am nine years old apparently.) The bottom version has black text underneath that reads “I Love Space and Rocks. And Space Rocks.” (Accurate.)
October 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge day 6: #Constellation - just a quick rendering in pencil of my oldest celestial friend, the Big Dipper.

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A pencil sketch of the seven stars composing the Big Dipper, with lines connecting the constellation, in a chubby square lavender sketchbook. A gray Blackwing 602 pencil lies diagonally above the drawing.
October 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you. 🚀🪐

#Art #SpaceArt #SciArt #watercolor
FAREWELL TO BENNU by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of asteroid Bennu, trailing debris from the left, with an abstract mottled background in navy, purples and blacks. The sun, spacecraft OSIRIS-REx and a distant Earth are seen on the right-hand side.
August 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Still thinking about last Saturday, driving on the Oregon Coast, south of Bandon where I took the photo that inspired this painting! I don’t think I could replicate that lighting if I tried, it was one in a million conditions. 😍

#watercolor #landscape #ocean #OregonCoast #driftwood #art
BANDON DRIFTWOOD by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of multiple driftwood trunks emerging from the beach at Bandon, Oregon. Purplish clouds hang in the overcast sky above the whitecapped horizon. The wood is painted in warm oranges and browns.
August 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Sharing some art today, a spectrum of color in Starship exhaust. Fond of how this turned out. 🌈🚀

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STARSHIP SPECTRUM by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of the Starship test launch, showing the exhaust clouds billowing around the engines and multi-colored flames of the Super Heavy booster.
August 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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It’s late in the day, but happy 10th birthday to the New Horizons flyby of dear Pluto! To celebrate, I made some 3.5” stickers of WE STILL LOVE YOU, my #watercolor portrait of Pluto! If you worked on New Horizons and would like one, please DM me! (If you just want one, also DM me! lol)
A swirled pile of circular vinyl stickers featuring my watercolor rendition of the New Horizons portrait of Pluto, against a watercolor painting background. Heaven knows I haven’t been painting on it, at least it’s an interesting backdrop.
July 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Important question (not really, but humor me): if I make Pluto stickers available, would people prefer regular/opaque, or *~holographic~* ?

Stickers are happening, just wondering if others agree that holo-Pluto would be 🤩🤩🤩🤩
WE STILL LOVE YOU by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of the dwarf planet Pluto, as imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. The surface is seen in enhanced color, showing warm tans, reddish-browns and purple-grays, dotted with craters and ridges. A large heart-shaped feature dominates the lower right quadrant of the planet. The background is rendered in blues and purples.
July 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Someone just bought an early original landscape of mine, a little guy I’m fond of. Thank you kind sir, I hope you enjoy it!
MT. SHASTA SEEN FROM PILOT ROCK by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor landscape of forested terrain in the Siskiyou Mountains, layer upon layer of hills rendered in jewel-toned cool shades of purple, blue and green, with a distant high mountain peak showing faint glaciers. The sky is faintly blue. One of my early pieces.
July 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Hello #PortfolioDay !

I’m Danielle, painter of spacecraft, planets, and interesting landscapes in watercolor and ink. I love space, rocks/geology, and science in general, and share that passion through my art! 🪐🪨🚀

Prints and originals available at planetaryartist.com

Thanks for looking!
DUST OF OSIRIS by Danielle Rose Baker. A painting of the top-down view of the opened sample return capsule from the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu. Circular sections and hexagonal bolts are seen among the rocky material in the middle ring, framed by lotus flower motifs and patterned circles with geometric ink designs drawn in an ancient Egyptian style with gold accents. A ring of painted turquoise, lapis and carnelian rectangles accented with gold surrounds the inkwork. Inspired by the decorative motifs of Tutankhamen’s treasures, and the Art Deco-tinged Egyptian Revival movement that arose from the discovery of said treasures. DAWN OF A NEW ERA by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of the second integrated launch of the SpaceX Starship and Falcon Super Heavy rocket on November 18, 2023. The rocket rises through a dawn-tinged sky from rose and peach exhaust, surrounded by a metallic Art Nouveau-esque border highlighted with ink. The background washes from blue at top to orange-pink at bottom. ASTRAL JELLYFISH by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black of the jellyfish galaxy JW39 as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy core is seen in golds and whites, with fainter arms punctuated by clusters of blue and pink, aglow with forming stars. This galaxy lies over 900 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices and is part of a galaxy cluster. The intense gravitational pull of its larger neighboring galaxies distorts its shape, and as it drifts through the cluster, hot plasma between galaxies has stripped star-forming gases into long tendrils and ribbons, resembling jellyfish. HAÍFOSS WATERFALL, ICELAND by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of a waterfall and river landscape in Iceland, seen against multi-layered cliffs capped by dark lava plains, some overgrown by green plants. The water is icy blue and flows towards distant mountains. A cloudy evening sky is seen in moody purples and yellows.
July 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I never posted my pieces from our trip to Maui in May! 🤦🏼‍♀️ This still life was to capture some of the amazing rocks, dead coral chunks, shells and seed pods we found over the course of our week there. Can’t take it home (illegal), took home a painting instead!

#watercolor #art #hawaii #StillLife
A still life watercolor painting of dead/tumbled coral pieces in white and ivory colors, a black lava rock with small green olivine crystals, some shells including the pink-purple inside of a limpet, a tiny brown seed cone, and a black and white kula nut. The nut is ground down and drilled to be strung into leis!
July 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Post a pic of you that’s not actually you:
Suomi Kyoko/Time Stranger from the manga series TIME STRANGER KYOKO by Tanemura Arina. A princess in a white gown with ribbons and clusters of pink flowers pinned to the skirt, wearing an elaborate silver crown and long white gloves against a purple moonlit sky. Her hair is golden and long, half-up, exposing her pointed ears. (But she isn’t an elf.)
June 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The hydrangeas are blooming outside my building at work.
Top-down photo of large hydrangea bushes full of delicate purple, blue and pink clusters of four-petaled blossoms. The colors vary from cluster to cluster, with some shifting color slightly within the cluster. The blue-purple tanzanite/lavender color is my favorite.
June 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Okay, so, I had my months-long art funk and I guess I’m done now. Back to the IFT-4 #wip with a fresh twist in mind. More to come.

#SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #SpaceX #spacecraft #IFT-4 #Starship
A painting in progress of the SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy integrated flight test #4 and humanity’s first live video of plasma during reentry. A multicolor wash over the piece has been sprinkled with salt on the right side. The spaceship has been lightly outlined, which will later be inked in and more decorative details added. There will be… METALLICS. That is all.
June 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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If you see this, post your blue art 💙

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FIRST FLIGHT by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of the CFT-1 launch and inaugural test (should we call it only test? Too soon?) of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, carrying two astronauts to the International Space Station on an Atlas rocket. The rocket rises past wispy clouds on the left side, with a view of the ISS in space in the top right corner. The blue sky fades to a mottled blue-purple color on the right, representing the depths of space.
June 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Also I got an epic shot of myself holding my Jolly Rockhound design as a full-size pirate flag. It’s a good day to be a rock pirate. 😅
The author stands looking off to the left, holding a tall flagpole in her left hand, with a large black and white pirate flag blowing away towards the right. She looks and feels extremely epic. The flag features a skull in a fedora-style hat, with crossed rock pick and shovel below. She is wearing the same design on a black tshirt, with dusty jeans, hiking boots, and a sun hat, because the Central Oregon sun was beating us up, and the 0% humidity* sucks the juice from your body (*okay realistically greater than 0% but seriously, SO DRY. I literally couldn’t hydrate enough no matter what I did.) She stands among clumps of sagebrush against a light blue sky with wispy streaks of cloud.
June 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Hi BlueSky. I’ve been busy and spent a few days mostly out of cell signal in the middle of nowhere, at a sunstone mine! Mostly I was a vendor selling tools and rockhounding merch, but we did collect some amazing stones, some facet-worthy, so that’s exciting.
A group of larger Oregon sunstones, most showing deep red color with champagne-clear rims, lit from a low angle by the morning sun. These are what the mining people call “juicies”.
June 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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SEEING SPOTS is featured in the June 2025 issue of THE PLANETARY REPORT!

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SEEING SPOTS by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting on a square block of an abstract red-orange background with light and dark areas in a chaotic pattern. Spreading across the bottom half are a series of dark sunspots expanding across the surface.
June 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM