
LOOSE LIDS STAIN SHIPS original watercolor painting by Danielle Rose Baker
LOOSE LIDS STAIN SHIPS by Danielle Rose Baker. A painting of the third integrated launch of the SpaceX Starship and Falcon Super Heavy rocket on March 14, 2024. The rocket is seen in orbit, floating above the earth. The vastness of space is rendered in dark textured blue, with a shimmering holographic quarter-disk representing the sun in the top right corner. A thick black outline separates the two. Blues and warmer colors form layers of cloud and ocean. A starburst-like texture covers the top right quarter of the piece and radiates out towards the lower left, where dusty rose ink was accidentally spilled across the piece, then covered by other inks and paints. A thick black outline borders the piece, with a shallow black arc cutting across it horizontally and serving as the atmospheric horizon.

FIRST FLIGHT original painting by Danielle Rose Baker
FIRST FLIGHT – A watercolor painting of the successful CFT-1 test 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.

DUST OF OSIRIS original painting by Danielle Rose Baker
DUST OF OSIRIS 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 original watercolor painting by Danielle Rose Baker
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.

DIANA PIERCES THE AZURE SKY original painting by Danielle Rose Baker
An ink illustration of a Saturn V rocket and launch tower. 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.

FIREFLY RISING original painting by Danielle Rose Baker
A watercolor painting of a slender black and white rocket rising through clouds of exhaust, colored shades of orange, rising to a dark blue sky. The entire scene is washed by a diagonal gradient from orange to blue, with only the rocket’s plume shown in bright white and shimmering gold.

BATTLE OF YAVIN technical watercolor illustration 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.

HUES OF VENUS original watercolor painting by Danielle Rose Baker
HUES OF VENUS original watercolor painting 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.

A FAULT ZONE ON MARS original painting by Danielle Rose
A watercolor painting with a pinkish rusty background that has a slight steel blue sheen. The color granulates and is more concentrated in splotches across the paper, giving an organic sunspot look. Alternating dark and light banded rock formations are inked in a loose, scribbled texture in two shades of dark navy and blue.

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.

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.

SEEING SPOTS original painting 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.

Reaching for the Stars ink drawing by Danielle Rose Baker
Reaching for the Stars original watercolor/ink painting by Danielle Rose Baker

The Future is Here original watercolor by Danielle Rose
The Future is Here original watercolor by Danielle Rose

ASTRAL JELLYFISH original watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
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.

Peter Iredale watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
Peter Iredale watercolor painting by Danielle Rose

ORION’S PERSPECTIVE original painting by Danielle Rose Baker
A mixed-media illustration in watercolor and ink of the NASA Orion capsule in lunar orbit, looking back on a gibbous Moon and Earth. The capsule is seen with the metal lit in shades of blue and purple, with a white painted bottom. A large red NASA worm logo dominates the bottom section of the capsule. The NASA meatball logo and an American flag are seen higher up on the capsule. The blackness of space is represented by many dense multi-colored ink lines, forming a dark scratch-textured background.

UNSEEN PILLARS original watercolor painting by Danielle Rose Baker
A watercolor painting on a black background, with rainbow clouds framing a portion of the Eagle Nebula star-forming region as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope in combined images of near- and mid-infrared light. The near-infrared light brings out the myriad of stars in the region, while the mid-infrared light shows the dust, a primary component in star formation.

WEBB’S RING original painting by Danielle Rose
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.

Farewell to Bennu watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
Farewell to Bennu watercolor painting by Danielle Rose

Sunset at King’s Canyon watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
Sunset at King’s Canyon watercolor painting by Danielle Rose

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.

MINERAL MOON original watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
A square watercolor painting, featuring a close up of the lunar surface with craters and seas in greens, purples, blues and oranges.

Sunset at Face Rock by Danielle Rose
A watercolor painting of the Face Rock/Bandon view on the Oregon coast at sunset. The sky washes from deep blue to gold, yellow and crimson red at the horizon, with crimson clouds wafting across the sky from upper left to lower right. Dark rocks jut out of the waters, with the water reflecting both sky and rocks in ribbons of color and darkness.

Starship Spectrum watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
Starship Spectrum watercolor painting by Danielle Rose

RHO OPHIUCHI original painting by Danielle Rose
A black-primed square board with layers of nebulous clouds and wisps in peach-gold, sage green, reds, oranges and lilacs, with scattered stars, picturing the Rho Ophiuchi star-forming region as seen by James Webb Space Telescope.

CATHEDRAL original painting by Danielle Rose Baker
A watercolor painting of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, a 526-foot white building with grey accents and a large United States flag painted down the upper left side, and a large NASA symbol painted on the right. On the front bay, a large Artemis logo is centered on the light gray-green front. The sky is blue with scattered clouds, and in the foreground is gray pavement and green lawns.

SPECTRAL LAGOON original painting by Danielle Rose Baker
Spectral Lagoon original painting by Danielle Rose

CRYSTALS original painting by Danielle Rose
A watercolor painting still life of five different minerals and crystals: a cluster of golden pyrite cubes, a large quartz crystal with a curtain of red hematite flakes embedded from top to bottom, a small dark purple amethyst crystal, a quartz crystal with large rutile blades shooting through the bottom, with a red oxidized base, and a twinned smoky quartz crystal in dark brown with lighter bases. The background is warm pinks and oranges, with a purple foreground to set off the crystals.

Voyage To The Two Asteroids watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
Voyage To The Two Asteroids watercolor painting by Danielle Rose

Ice Cliffs of Pluto watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
Ice Cliffs of Pluto watercolor painting by Danielle Rose

BANDON DRIFTWOOD watercolor painting 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.

Orion Illuminated watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
Orion Illuminated watercolor painting by Danielle Rose

SAHARA DESERT AS SEEN BY ISS original painting by Danielle Rose Baker
A watercolor of the Sahara Desert seen from orbit in shades of peach, pink and purple, showing plateaus carved by alluvial gullies and fans, showing the tremendous impact of water flows on the desert environment. The scene has a fractal-like quality.

Hidden Colors original watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
Hidden Colors original watercolor painting by Danielle Rose

SpaceX Starship SN8 at Sunset by Danielle Rose Baker
SpaceX Starship SN8 at Sunset original watercolor painting by Danielle Rose Baker

Shadow of the Eagle watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
Shadow of the Eagle watercolor painting by Danielle Rose

Delta Clipper watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
Delta Clipper watercolor painting by Danielle Rose

Into the Blue watercolor painting by Danielle Rose
Into the Blue watercolor painting by Danielle Rose

Shai-Hulud unframed original painting by Danielle Rose
Shai-Hulud unframed original painting by Danielle Rose