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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀

@planetaryartist.com

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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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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · Jul 8

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.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 8h

Yeah a lot of this in hindsight was fueled by undiagnosed ADHD 😂 but hey, now I know (at 47!) Better late than never right?

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 9h

But technically she only needed one….

James Head @jamesrhead.bsky.social · 14h

Hannah Fry knows five words to make you happy.

A bit more economical than the Technomage's 14 words?

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@fryrsquared.bsky.social

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#babylon5 #b5

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 9h

I wrote up a seven-day mapping trip for field camp AND HAND-DREW THE GEOLOGICAL MAP in an all-nighter the night before it was due, on Jolt Cola, turned it in at 8 am, and got in the van to go to the next location. Got an A. GenAI can go fuck itself.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 9h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 10h

That’s not a poor choice, that is STRATEGY.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 12h

Gonna have to agree with other-Danielle here 😂

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 16h

Dr. Mann aka BAD MARK WATNEY 😂

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 17h

Citizens, Kids & Scientists? Citizens, Kobolds and Scientists?

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 17h

My one tiny regret is not hearing/noticing if the car alarms went off in the parking lot. Too busy staring and weeping lol.

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 17h

Yes!!

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 18h

Saw a space shuttle launch in person from the KSC press site and made some of the best friends of my life. Social media literally changed my life.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 18h

Rockhounding Obsessed Cool Kids & Scientists?

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 18h

Love it! I’m leaning towards the acronym, though certainly the other one is accurate 😅

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 18h

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 · 1d

I am STUPIDLY EXCITED about this. My first trademark ever! 😍 What a process this was.

RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · 1d

Our registered trademark for RCK HND is official as of today!! (But backdated to last year when we filed 🙄😅)

So excited!!!

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 2d

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 2d

#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.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

I’m down for this.

The image is an X post by RB (@rbisrb
) from 1 day ago, with the caption "Absolutely..." The post includes a meme featuring a photo of several men in suits, with text overlay stating: "Instead of 'billionaires' can we go back to calling them 'robber barons'?" The individuals in the photo appear to be prominent figures, though they are not specifically identified.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown

Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

www.thehandbasket.co

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 8d

What I’ve been doing, besides being sick last week.

RCKHND® @rckhnd.com · 8d

New things in the shop as we prepare for (hopefully!!! 🤞🏻🤞🏻) an influx of visitors from our very first advertisement 😱

Including… this (sorry-not-sorry, space friends.) Also available in two other shirt styles, and as a sticker.

#rckhnd #rockhounding #nasa #rocks

ROCKS Meatball Logo Gildan Unisex Classic Tee

Please note: this brand of shirt is more "classic fit". If you prefer a slightly fitted softer look, see the Bella+Canvas version. For a v-neck, click here. If you obsess over space and rocks in equal...

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 10d

Hahahaha nah I’m good, I just was looking at my husband’s vector file feeling like the red was off, and sure enough, it was! 😅

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 10d

Not me looking up the exact NASA Red and Blue CMYK colors to make sure a spoof logo is “correct”, oh no.

That definitely wasn’t me. [bookmarks page]

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 13d

Thank you!

Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 14d

Since last we spoke, I had a birthday over the weekend, went to the Oregon Zoo, watched a baby elephant high-center itself on a ball and angry-toot at it (except it was just NOT threatening AT ALL, in ANY WAY), and then I was down with a cold the past few days. Action packed over here. 🙄

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 14d

I never thought about it much, but he really DOES mansplain that, doesn’t he 😬

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 16d

Finding good information is hard.

A study done on 2.5M pregnant women who took Tylenol during pregnancy showed no adverse fetal effects.

However, pregnant women with untreated fevers had increased fetal risk of:

Neural tube,
Heart,
And abdominal wall,

Defects.

Plus cleft palate and more!

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