Danielle Rose Baker 🚀

@planetaryartist

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Jul 6

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· May 22

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

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· May 20

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· May 13

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· May 12

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Apr 14

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Apr 7

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Apr 3

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Apr 1

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

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Apr 1

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Mar 9

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Jan 1

…I’ll take it.

A screenshot of a gif posted by Merriam-Webster with the text “Your 2026 word” and the word “hopeful”.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Dec 30

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Dec 29

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Dec 24

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Nov 2

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

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Oct 28

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Oct 22

#SpacetoberChallenge day 22: #LunarLanding - the shadow of the #Apollo11 lunar lander, Eagle. #watercolor on handmade cotton paper. #SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Oct 21

#SpacetoberChallenge day 21: #Star - a view of Orion as seen by JWST. Pearlescent #watercolor on black paper. #SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Oct 20

#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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Oct 15

#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

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Oct 14

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Oct 11

#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

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Oct 8

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?

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Oct 6

#SpacetoberChallenge day 6: #Constellation - just a quick rendering in pencil of my oldest celestial friend, the Big Dipper. #SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #Spacetober

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Aug 20

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

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Aug 19

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Aug 13

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Jul 15

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.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀@planetaryartist· Jul 9

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 🤩🤩🤩🤩