I can’t believe prints launch in less than a week! Feb 25th early access for my email list 🫶 The original will also be up for grabs! It is tiny but mighty—the price will reflect the amount of work that went into it. If no one buys it, I get to keep it lol

Holy balls that’s a painting. I painted that. Looks like you can grab the pinball game right off the paper! 👾

Perseverance celebrates 5 years on Mars! This is a painting of the day Ingenuity unfolded (rip 🥲🚁) #space #astronomy 🔭🧪🐡

From Nathan Whitsett: Exoplanets orbiting the most common stars in our galaxy experience intense space weather, raising questions about their ability to harbor life. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/16/s...

Five years ago today! We imaged Perseverance on its descent to Mars, under fairly challenging conditions but we did it because we have a kickass team. www.uahirise.org/ESP_068281_9...

As weird as it sounds, I am working on a painting of a toilet paper roll, construction paper, and cardboard. Trompe l’oeil is a French term that means “to deceive the eye”. The goal is an optical illusion—depicting something on a flat surface that looks three dimensional. 1st layer ✅

Can't believe it's been 5 years since Perseverance & Ingenuity landed on Mars. Such an inspiration: admiring the heat shield falling away during a pandemic while we need our protective masks, the motif of togetherness, and it led me to collab with one my best friends ✨ @sciencesocks.bsky.social

Starting this Friday, four separate #JWST programmes will be exploring physical processes in Jupiter's atmosphere and ionosphere. We're asking amateur astronomers to help provide context imaging over the next few weeks to understand how the atmosphere is changing with time. #planetaryscience

As you read this, a panel of judges is looking at 5 of my science paintings along with THOUSANDS of other submissions. I find out in a week if I progress to the long list. Portraits, landscapes, and other contemporary art is mostly what I see submitted. No space art, no science art.

If you like space, science, and art …you’re in the right place! Spectrum of Storms: Jupiter in visible, ultraviolet, and infrared painted in oils stellerarts.com/pages/shop

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work in progress ⭐️ Starting off with a smooth base layer of color, being careful not to let any of the paint blend #SpaceArt

watch me turn scientific data into art ✨

I’ve dazzled you with nebulae, floated a foil balloon off the canvas, and made you question whether you’re looking at a real crystal or not. But the greatest challenge thus far will be painting construction paper. Stay tuned 🤓

I finally got to paint today! Other small biz things got in the way for a whole week. Next week I’ll also be having another shop update. Trying to have new prints every month this year.

If you’ve seen my space art, I use geometric shapes like windows into different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. My next piece is going to be a pain in the ass. It will require taping off 30 individual circles of 10 different sizes every single painting session 😅. But it will be AWESOME

a wild sunflower appears 🌻

My art studio feels naked without this giant painting that’s been hanging on my wall easel for 3 years! Live in Tucson? Come see 3 of my paintings and tons of wonderful pieces at Art of Planetary Science show in 2 weeks! Details in flyer ⬇️

Using AI makes science communication worse. Period. AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity. But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.

Saturn in Near UV and Blue - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2fMx5oT

Can I paint cardboard & construction paper? Stay tuned! Am I currently experimenting with like 5 different painting styles & themes? Yes. Shhhh it’s all space art, enjoy! 🐡

why does the circle paper cutter I want (for my next painting) not deliver to the US noooooo

Went to the Tucson Gem Show for the first time! Got my very own space rocks! A pallasite & lunar meteorite. My husband got fossilized poop (lol) & a spinosaurus tooth. I was also very excited about the Dippin’ Dots. The matching shirts were a hit.

Wooooo tomorrow I’m finally going to the Tucson Gem show for the first time! Most of my stuff from childhood was thrown out, including my rock collection, so maybe I can get a few minerals to replace what I had ☺️

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! ⭐️ Loved my research, but was drawn to follow my passion in a way I could combine science, art, and education. It’s a privilege to share my paintings with you! Thanks for sticking around to support this journey 🤗

Ahhhh look! The native desert globemallow I planted is blooming for the first time and has a lil friend. I was expecting it to be orange, but I guess I got a white one! 🐞

Space pinball is off to be professionally scanned by a local business ☺️

People have been asking me for a print of my multi-spectral Jupiter FOR YEARS. Unfortunately, I could not transport the giant painting at the time & am emotionally attached to it remaining in my sight. BUT THEN I painted a little version. It’s even better! Spectrum of Storms coming in 2 weeks ☁️

They were wrong about what’s inside Uranus (Jokes aside, there have been a bajillion modeling papers about the internal structure of Uranus and Neptune and none of them will be provably right or wrong until we get a damn orbiter to one of them)

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

convo with my husband who has never seen any Star Trek me: can I buy a life size cardboard cut out of Data for the house? husband: yes, it would be cool if you could get one of Riker with his chair too!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

I just submitted 5 of my paintings to an art contest which received 13,000 entries last year ahahah. If one of my pieces makes it past the first cut, I call that a win for science art 😎

Behold! My latest multi-spectral oil painting. The Cat’s Paw Nebula in visible light (greyscale) & infrared (rectangles) featuring 2027 hand-painted stars ⭐️

Let my dog out, and my yard is filled with purple flowers! Birds must have delivered them for me. Unfortunately it’s a non-native species, and I’ve been trying to fill my yard with native ones. The bees seem happy though! Hummingbirds are engaged in warfare as usual. 🦜

Watching Eric Berger (historically a Musk fanboy) struggle with the revelation that Musk is a fake engineer conman white supremacist never loses its entertainment value

Hello Cosmic Cliffs, we meet again for the first time in 3 years! Touching up a few spots today. The checkerboard is visible light from Hubble, and the rest of the piece is infrared from JWST. Tucson: you can see 3 of my paintings at the Art of Planetary Science show starting Feb 27th 🐡🔭🧪

I finally got one of those weird scam texts & knew exactly what to do 😆

Last chance! Prints disappear tonight at midnight MST. And thank you so much to everyone who grabbed one. I was surprised some people ordered both! They will look awesome together 🤗

When I say I create scientific art I mean I’m over here painting 1364 stars by hand as accurately as possible 😅

I saw my favorite hummingbird species in the yard, which means it’s going to be a great day 😎 (broad-billed hummingbird)

I have a predicament! I submitted an unfinished painting to an art show. It was accepted. Yay! BUT I’m not going to finish the piece before the show like I thought. Oops. Do I pull it from the show or let it stay in? 😳

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Binary Star xkcd.com/3203/

Cat’s Paw Nebula is almost finished! Very excited to share it with you soooooon 🐡

Has anyone else broken their cuboid bone before? It’s a pretty rare bone to break in your foot. I am just curious because some days my foot feels very…crunchy when I walk and wonder if other people experience that too lol

Someone commented on one of my painting videos asking me what colors I used to make something. Girl idk, I have literally hundreds of colors of paint & I’m always custom mixing more. I can teach you about planetary astronomy, but I am very much not an art teacher! You can buy my art though 😆

New shape: small jar ✨

4 days left if you’d like a print of my crystal paintings! ☺️