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.

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #Hubble! SPECTRAL LAGOON is a pearlescent #watercolor on black paper, of the Lagoon #Nebula as seen by Hubble in 2018.

#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #cosmicart #Spacetober2023 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_03 #nebulae #art #painting #Space

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.

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #Orion! ORION’S PERSPECTIVE is a #watercolor and #ink #illustration of the Orion capsule looking back on the Earth and the far side of the #Moon.

#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #Spacetober2023 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_03 #art #painting #Space

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.

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #Heliophysics! SEEING SPOTS is a #watercolor #painting of an X-class flare on the sun, imaged at Sacramento Peak in New Mexico.

#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #Spacetober2023 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_03 #art #Space

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.

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #SpaceCenter! CATHEDRAL is a #watercolor #painting of one of my favorite buildings, the glorious Vehicle Assembly Building at #NASA Kennedy Space Center.

#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #Spacetober2023 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_03 #art #Space

A watercolor painting with a Falcon Heavy rocket launching towards the sky. Three fiery rocket plumes descend from the base of the white and gray rocket, creating a white and yellow halo of light against a blue sky. The background washes in a circular gradient from yellow to white to blue.

A watercolor painting with a Falcon Heavy rocket launching towards the sky. Three fiery rocket plumes descend from the base of the white and gray rocket, creating a white and yellow halo of light against a blue sky. The background washes in a circular gradient from yellow to white to blue. The photo is angled so as to show the white and gold pearlescent details of the rocket plume.

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #Spacecraft! HEAVY LIGHT is a #watercolor #painting of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launching last November.

#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #Spacetober2023 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_03 #art #Space

A watercolor painting on gray paper, with a blue swathe of sky cutting across horizontally, the unpainted gray paper representing clouds above and below. On the right, a small capsule drifts down towards the ocean under three orange and white parachutes.

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #Landing! ARTEMIS I SPLASHDOWN is a #watercolor #painting of the Orion capsule about to splash down, ending a picture-perfect mission.

#moon #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #Spacetober2023 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_03 #art #Space

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.

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is Nebula! WEBB’S RING is a #watercolor #painting of the Ring Nebula as seen by James Webb Space Telescope in enhanced/assigned-color.

#JWSTArt #UnfoldtheUniverse #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #Spacetober2023 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_03 #art #Space

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.

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #NewHorizons! WE STILL LOVE YOU is a #watercolor #painting of our favorite demoted planet, #Pluto!

#SpaceArt #SciArt #Spacetober2023 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_03 #art #Space

A drawing of a large spacecraft being mated to an equally large booster rocket, with workmen observing the joining, seen in the gap between. Rendered in lavender and navy inks, on a tea-brown background splattered with lavender droplets.

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is Historic Launch Vehicles! REACHING FOR THE STARS is an #ink #illustration of @SpaceX Starship 24 mating with the Falcon Super Heavy booster.

#SpaceArt #SciArt #inkdrawing #Spacetober2023 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_03 #art #spaceflight #Space