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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 22/08/2026

Finally made it down to the Coaster Show! My two Project Hail Mary watercolor paintings are still available, if anyone wants to ABSOLUTELY MAKE MY YEAR and buy an original artwork for ONLY $50. See www.centralartsupply.com/shop/GALLERY... or www.centralartsupply.com/shop/GALLERY... to buy online.

My two Project Hail Mary watercolor originals at the Central Art Gallery Coaster show.
No red dots, WOMP WOMP.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 11/08/2026

Wearing this LOUDLY for those in the back. (Necklace by @surlyamy.bsky.social . Buy her stuff!! It’s awesome!)

The author, with a stern expression, holding up a ceramic pendant by @surlyamy that says “Science Saves Lives”. I was gonna wear another necklace today but the news got me all steamed up so here we are.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 06/08/2026

I completed two coasters for our local coaster show, both Project Hail Mary themed. And here they are!

A Moment by Danielle Rose Baker. A painting in iridescent watercolors of astronaut Ryland Grace floating beside a particle collector in front of planet Adrian, a swirl of greens and oranges.

Believe in the Hail Mary by Danielle Rose Baker. A painting in iridescent watercolors of the ship Hail Mary basking in the red swirls of the Petrova Line.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 06/07/2026

So I’ve been painting again. #ProjectHailMary #SciFiArt #SpaceArt These are for a group coaster show on the 17th! (Which I just realized, I’ll be out of town for, womp-WOMP.)

Two mostly-finished paintings lying on a table with paints and a brush. Both are from the Petrova line sample scene in Project Hail Mary above planet Adrian. The one on the left features red and silver wave shapes with a tiny HM vehicle floating through the middle. The one on the right shows the green and orange swirling atmosphere of Adrian with a silhouetted Grace floating beside the ship and astrophage sampler. Both are painted in color-shifting pearlescent watercolor on small black square coasters.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 22/05/2026

For my meteorite friends, available shortly in shirt form...

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 20/05/2026

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

The Three Lights band from Sailor Moon Cosmos: from left to right, Taiki, Seiya, and Yaten.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 13/05/2026

So here’s something I made this week, because why wouldn’t Rocky be into rocks? Available here: rckhnd.com/products/ama...

A glossy UV sticker with Rocky the five-legged alien from PROJECT HAIL MARY holding up a smoky quartz crystal cluster, in front of large words AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE in the background. The letters are colored with a brown/green/gold diagonal gradient.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 12/05/2026

Okay I’ll bite. This is one of my favorite paintings, newly framed, of asteroid Bennu and a tiny OSIRIS-REx spacecraft headed back to Earth. (I don’t have a picture of it framed, but it’s tasteful.) planetaryartist.com/products/far... Any art sales bring me endless joy, bc so far this year: $0 😓

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 14/04/2026

Whoops, it’s #PortfolioDay ! I’m Danielle and I paint and illustrate spacecraft, planets, and landscapes in watercolor and ink. Fond of ink textures and metallic touches. No A I here, just space, rockets and geology. 🪐🪨🚀 Prints and originals available at planetaryartist.com Thanks for looking!

HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent watercolor painting on black paper of comet Hyakutake, which appeared in 1996 as a beautifully long, bright green-blue comet with a large icy core easily viewed with binoculars. It’s a vivid memory from the summer I graduated high school, and it’s stayed with me ever since.

STS-133 LAUNCH by Danielle Rose Baker.
A detailed technical painting in pearlescent inks of Space Shuttle Discovery leaving the launch pad for the last time in 2011. Seen is the mobile launch platform and top portion of the launch tower, a intricate structure of pipes and beams. The bottom of the tower is obscured by the exhaust plume, seen in dark grays and golds. In the background, bold colored stripes cut diagonally behind the shuttle stack from lower right to top left.

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.

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 07/04/2026

They got Artemis a coffee and a donut. That’s so nice, it was a long day for him! #SailorMoon #ArtemisII

A view inside the Artemis II Mission Control room at Johnson Space Center, where the Artemis cat plush is clearly seen in the background behind the CAPCOM desk. Someone has brought him a coffee and a special donut, which is really kind. It’s been a long day for both humans and moon kitties.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 03/04/2026

You say “casual Friday at work”, I say REGALIA DAY TWO.

Danielle wearing her space trucker jacket (now no longer missing the all-important STS-133 pin) and Woman on the Moon tee, because fuck this administration’s erasure of anything DEI—and I’m sorry, fuck NASA for going along with it—WOMEN BELONG ON THE MOON.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 01/04/2026

New painting just dropped!! HYAKUTAKE IN DREAMS, 10x8”, pearlescent watercolor on black paper w/aluminum mount. (Really!) #watercolor #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #SciArt #comet

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 01/04/2026

So if you thought I was showing up to work NOT in full regalia… you’d be wrong.

Danielle wearing her STS-133 NASA Tweetup lanyard and badge, and “space trucker” denim jacket covered in space and nerdy pins and patches (including Artemis I, Woman on the Moon, and authentic shuttle-era Pilot position patch. And astronaut socks, astronaut earrings, two moonstones, and solar system bracelet for MAXIMUM GOOD VIBES.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 09/03/2026

This is a tiny victory amid all the horrors [waves hands around] …but sharing because this is my first official copyright EVER, and I fuckin LOVE that @rckhnd.com‘s nerdy Jolly Rockhound is now in the Library of Congress. 😍

A photo of an envelope from the Library of Congress, US Copyright Office, with a black business card lying on top showing a Jolly Roger-styled illustration of a “skull and crossbones”. The skull wears a fedora hat, stylishly tilted, and the “bones” are a crossed rock hammer and shovel.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 30/12/2025

Okay. Help me, friends. Besides the new painting I’d have to send a progress photo of to enter, which of the following #SpaceArt should I submit to TAPS 2026? (Or suggest another one. The top two are already framed.)

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.

WEBB’S RING by Danielle Rose Baker.
A black-primed square board with the Ring Nebula seen in shades of blue ringed with peach, gold, orange, red and pink, with scattered stars and eyelash-like rays in purple, bronze and pink, as seen by James Webb Space Telescope.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 29/12/2025

I love the textures in this image so much! I painted it a few years ago, a more abstract-looking piece. #watercolor #SciArt #SpaceArt

ICE CLIFFS OF PLUTO by Danielle Rose Baker.
A watercolor painting of ice cliffs on the surface of Pluto as imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2025, seen in rusty oranges, browns, and cool grays. The upper left shows a light-colored speckled surface representing ice plains, while the lower right shows more contrast, with deeply shadowed topography forming cliffs, pits, and ridges.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 24/12/2025

I blew off social media lately, and for that I apologize. But I can’t let #ArtAdventCalendar pass without posting at least ONCE! So here’s something different, a photo of a lone surfer, three weeks ago during the King Tides at Cannon Beach #Oregon, just two days before all the flooding hit.

A lone surfer braves the crazy waves during king tide on 12/6/25, seen from Ecola State Park north of Cannon Beach, on the northern Oregon coast. The scene is moody and mostly monotones with a pearl-gray cloudy sky, dark waves and silvery reflections crossing horizontally across the photo. An arch rock thrusts upwards in the upper left corner of the photo, with misty spray obscuring the arch. The weather is windy and cold, and this person is clearly insane, but at least he has a full wetsuit on.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 02/11/2025

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

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 28/10/2025

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 20/10/2025

#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. #SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 15/10/2025

#SpacetoberChallenge day 15: #BlackHole - one I did last year but I like how it came out (and it sure does shimmer in the light!) #SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 14/10/2025

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!

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 11/10/2025

#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. #SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #Spacetober2025 #Spacetober

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 08/10/2025

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?

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 20/08/2025

Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you. 🚀🪐 #Art #SpaceArt #SciArt #watercolor

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 19/08/2025

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 13/08/2025

Sharing some art today, a spectrum of color in Starship exhaust. Fond of how this turned out. 🌈🚀 It’s available! planetaryartist.com/products/sta...

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 15/07/2025

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 09/07/2025

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 08/07/2025

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 08/07/2025

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!

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 07/07/2025

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!

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 30/06/2025

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.)

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 30/06/2025

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 25/06/2025

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 18/06/2025

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 18/06/2025

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”.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 09/06/2025

SEEING SPOTS is featured in the June 2025 issue of THE PLANETARY REPORT! www.planetary.org/planetary-re... #SpaceArt #SciArt #watercolor #sun #solar

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 05/05/2025

Today is Monday. I was out rockhounding most of yesterday and missed my May the 4th post, so for Revenge of the 5th, here’s a lovely X-wing. (Prints available! And sales are SUPER DUPER helpful right now.) planetaryartist.com/products/bat... #StarWars #MayThe4th #SciFiArt #watercolor #art #BuyArt

BATTLE OF YAVIN by Danielle Rose Baker. An ink and watercolor illustration of an X-wing fighter from the Star Wars universe against a starry sky rendered in purples and blues. The Death Star looms in the background and the fighter is flying away from it, towards the viewer.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 29/04/2025

Today is Tuesday. It was harder than it should’ve been to force myself out the door early to go swim before work, but I’m glad I did. Would you like an art? Here, have one, of a king tide at Neptune State Beach last year. #watercolor #OceanArt #landscapes #NatureArt #OregonCoast #Art

KING TIDE AT NEPTUNE
A watercolor painting of the ocean during a king tide, an extreme tidal event at the Oregon Coast. The waves foam up against black rounded cobbles on the beach, with large white waves cresting and crashing further from shore, with large sprays shooting up against the horizon. The water is faintly blue-green and the skies are muted grays.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 28/04/2025

Today is Monday. We went to the coast on Saturday (our happy place), found no agates at all at our favorite spot, but we found lots of shell pieces for tumbling (yes! You can polish shells like rocks, just skip the coarse grit stages.) I’m obsessed with these sand patterns. #ocean #OregonCoast

A photo of beach sand with a small stream crossing it diagonally from lower left to upper right, forming complex patterns of light and dark sand across the lower two-thirds of the scene. The main water channel forms ripple-like patterns, with longer braided patterns of light and dark across the shallow slower-moving part of the stream. The stream’s edge is crisply defined by a shallow cliff of sand, uniformly tan-colored above the flowing water.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 23/04/2025

The world is a mess, but I still think about art nonstop. And how much I love painting the Moon, I need to do another one. Would you like to give this a home? It’s available! planetaryartist.com/products/min... #SciArt #SpaceArt #watercolor #geology

MINERAL MOON by Danielle Rose Baker.
A square watercolor painting, featuring a close up of the lunar surface with craters and seas in greens, purples, blues and oranges. This enhanced color image shows subtle differences in chemical composition and geology, highlighting subsequent volcanic flows and mineral concentrations that might otherwise evade the eye.

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