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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September flew by. Things keep speeding up, it feels like. Careening down a steep hill in a little wagon with a wobbly wheel… Does anybody feel like they are in control and have a good grip on the steering wheel? #artbeco #gratitudejournal

A calendar grid for September 2026, which is filled with tiny colorful drawings of everyday things, events, animals, plants, etc.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

August sure passed in quick huff of seeds and spiderwebs. The spiders have been very busy. Things seem to keep speeding up- the old ‘where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?” keeps running in my head. #gratitudejournal #artbeco #sketchbook

August 2026 Small color doodles to mark each day.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Well July was speedy. Visits from friends and family, gaming and food filled this month. Things out in the world are crazy in bad ways, but we are savoring the good people, good eats and good things in our lives. #artbeco #uplifting #gratitude

A calendar grid for July 2026 is filled with colorful little drawings of things and events that mark each day.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

June 2026-my little calendar doodles to appreciate something for each day in the month. These are tiny; each image is maybe an inch and a half square. I keep thinking I should do the whole calendar bigger, but then it’ll take longer, more pressure- they’re just quick little notes to mark the day.

A calendar grid for June is filled with colorful little drawings of people, places, plants, food, etc.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

My calendar doodles for May 2026. It helps me stay sane in these crazy times to focus in on a good thing from each day. #gratitude #uplifting #artbeco #gratitudesketchbook

A calendar grid for May 2026, with each small day filled with different drawings for things that happened on that day; things that were significant, or touching, or just worth savoring.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Did a sketch of the tulip gardens up in the Skagit Valley last weekend. It was past the peak season, but still lovely. Working to improve my landscape skills… #uplift #sketchbook #roosengaarde #tulips

A watercolor sketch on tan paper shows a field of colorful flowers leading back to several evergreen trees shading the field of flowers.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

April, whew. What a crazy busy month. Our new little cat, Rogue, has integrated very well with all the other pets; we now have 3 black cats. It can be startling when they all appear at once. Seeing friends and family has been great. #artbeco #uplifting #gratitudejournal

A calendar grid for April 2026 is filled with small colored drawings, one for each day to mark events and small bits to remember and enjoy. People, landscapes, animals, plants all are right next to each other in a chaotic mix of days.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

April 2026 calendar doodles. So much crazy bad out in the world it’s hard to breathe. Really trying to see and appreciate what I have here and now. #artbeco #gratitudejournal #uplift

A calendar grid for April is filled with little sketches for each day. There are scenes of mountains, pets, plants and people, whatever seemed best to represent what happened that day.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I wonder when, if ever, she’s been on a lap before. Our wild little rescue kitty (was going to be put down as unhandle-able) came onto my lap today, purring and very happy to be petted, for over an hour. It’s been about 3 weeks since we adopted her. #artbeco #rescuecat #purring

A person wearing a woolly sweater looks down at a black cat on her lap. The cat is looking at us with a rather smug side-eye.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

We went to 2 ‘No Kings’ protest gatherings today: a street gathering in Snohomish, and Everett’s much more formal one, with speakers and such. So many awesome signs and people. Lots of honking and support. #artbeco #nokingsprotest #penzeys

I’m wearing a dark red knitted hat, holding up a blue and yellow cloth flag that says ‘choose love’, with various no kings protesters in the background.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Socialization of our rescue kitty Rogue is going well. She couldn’t be handled at all by the shelter and was ‘unadoptable’. She’s settled in well so far and we’re slowly socializing her to the other pets as well as us. #artbeco #rescuecat #uplift

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A lovely little bit of time with Mai, our oldest and most dignified Empress cat. She saw my knitting on my lap and hurried over for some uninterrupted lap time and petting. I feel honored; she doesn’t do that often. #artbeco #blackcats #uplift

A woman with glasses looks at a black cat on her lap, who is looking up at her. Both are smiling slightly, though you can’t tell the cat is because her head is facing away from you. Trust me, she is smiling.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Well, the Cat Distribution System can be quite insistent. This little nugget is back with us, after a week in the shelter. Labeled unadoptable, we took her back. We’ll be socializing her gradually. Previous owner was unreachable by vet or shelter, so she is now ours. Goes by Rogue. #artbeco #rescue

A black cat lays on her back on a rug, looking at us. She has a white spot on her chest.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

February. Big and small stuff all going on at once, as always.

A calendar grid for February, with little drawings for each day of something significant for that day. Cats, dogs, places, people, food- moments, events, mundane and otherwise.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This, and the comments, made me laugh so hard today. Thanks, I needed that.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

January has flown. It’s been filled with good news for our family, along with lots of protesting the horrific news in the country. Here’s hoping February brings better news nationally. #artbeco #gratitude #uplift

A colander grid for January is filled with colorful little drawings for each day- events, pets, plants, etc.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The river has gone back to more normal levels a few weeks after all the flooding here. There’s lots of debris stuck in high branches of the trees from where the flood waters were; where we are standing here was under water by at least 15 feet at the height of flooding. #artbeco #snohomish

We look at river water and a trestle bridge above. Through the underside of the bridge, we can see mountains and trees on the far bank. It’s cloudy and winter colors everything.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Nine years ago I drew this in my sketchbook. I thought it was bad then… How much more frightening and awful things would become in this timeline is hard to believe, but we are in it. I keep hoping we can pull up out of this nightmare. #artbeco #resist #protest

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

If you look closely you can see Orion’s Belt above the trees. My favorite constellation. If I can see the night sky, I can find some peace and stability in my heart even in crazy times like these. #artbeco #uplift

A dark night sky shows Orion above some dark trees and a white fence lit with warm light.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Sunday’s Anti-Ice protest in front of the Everett Home Depot, in WA. The protesters went down the street for about a quarter mile. We talked to police officers there; they said they couldn’t take sides but were there to protect the protesters. #artbeco #antiiceprotest #resist

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

We went to the regular Friday protest yesterday, going to another impromptu protest tomorrow. I made some new signs. It all seems woefully inadequate, but it’s something. #artbeco #protests

A man wearing a knitted frog hat holds 2 signs: “Dystopian fiction is not a how-to guide” and “We must stop this lying murderous corrupt regime. It’s up to us”. He’s on a street corner and other protesters are in the background.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Watched CBS news for the first time in awhile and it really made me mad, it was so biased, and not in a good way. Turned it off and started just drawing the pets to get some mental balance. It helped. #artbeco #sketchbook #pencildrawing

A white sketchbook page has rough pencil sketches of a short legged black and white corgi, and a black cat in various positions, drawn from life quickly.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I made a year's group of my monthly calendar doodles. There's lots of ink doodles, some washi tape, some pencil etc. in there. I started doing these a few years ago as a way to see something good in each day. Seems to work for me. #artbeco #calendardoodles #gratitudejournal #uplift

2025; a year's worth of tiny calendar doodles, one for each day with tiny drawings and images of fun and mundane things that marked my days. Pets, people, events, places.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

December 2025. Last gratitude calendar of this past year. I’ll try to make a collection of all 12 together just to see what they look like together. It’s been… quite a year, hasn’t it? #artbeco #gratitudejournal #uplift

Gratitude journal calendar sketches for December 2025. A calendar grid has little color drawings in each day, with things like people, food, places, pets, etc. to mark something for each day that makes life a bit better.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The mountains have more snow and some of the floodwaters are receding. The sun was out briefly! It’s raining again now, but sun was a nice break. #artbeco #snohomish

A green field in front of a farm, snowy mountains are in the background.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Last Thursday we were about the last people to drive on Marsh road (most other roads already flooded.) We drove through maybe a foot of water. Hours later the whole valley was flooded and the road vanished. The first fatality of all the WA flooding was found there this morning. #artbeco #snohomish

An ink and colored pencil drawing of candles is surrounded by a handwritten journal entry describing local flooding in our area.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Whelp. Flooding is definitely happening in Snohomish; multiple roads closed in and out of town, fields flooded, Our house is on a high ridge so we are fine, but so many others are not. #artbeco #snohomishflooding

The trestle bridge tonight with the Snohomish River at high flood levels: only a foot below the all-time high water ever measured. The water level is almost all the way up to the bridge itself.

The trestle bridge over the Snohomish River at more normal levels.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Well that’s crazy. November is gone. Whipped by in a blur, marked by doing things with family, prepping for winter, all that. Hope your month was good too, and the coming one is even better! #artbeco #novembergratitude #uplift

A calendar grid for November is filled with tiny images mostly drawn with colored inks, some washi tapes. Each day has an image for something special on that day, like fog in trees, leaves, pets, people.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Today calls for a warm dry sweater, a good book or some knitting, and a hot mug of something- your choice. #artbeco #snohomishriver #rainyday #uplift

Raindrops on a windshield are between us and a blurry view of an old train trestle bridge going over a river on this cold wet rainy day.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A messy pastel drawing from a bit ago; it’s to catch a memory moment, just a quick rough. The trumpeter swans and snow geese are here and passing through. I love seeing them. #artbeco #pastelsketch #uplift

A pastel landscape with brown field in foreground, white bird shapes on the ground. Trees in the mid ground are green and orange, in fall colors. Blue mountains are in the background. Several white birds fly in the cloudy sky.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Today is Veteran's Day. I'm choosing to remember my dad, who served in the Pacific during WWII. He survived action in Leyte Gulf, among other places, and came back to the states missing part of his lung, a rib, and with other damage as well. (cont. in comments.) #artbeco #veteransday

A pencil drawing I did based on a photo of my dad, Jim Gladney, taken shortly after he got home from WWII. He has dark hair and eyes, is wearing a suit and tie, and is looking off to his left.

My dad in a photo taken by me around 1990, I think. He looks kind of craggy, maybe grumpy, with white hair and a mustache, wearing a tan blazer and a blue shirt.

A black and white phot taken during WWII in the Pacific, from the deck of the baby flattop my dad served on (the USS Kitkun Bay). It shows a kamikaze fighter diving in flames towards the deck of a nearby flattop ship. You can see airplanes with folded wings on the deck of the ship we are standing on in the foreground., and smoke is in the air nearby. I found this photo in my dad's papers that he kept through the years in his briefcase, and also saw the same photo later posted in a display at the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The sun was out today! It was beautiful driving around. The leaves won’t last much longer but for right now the colors are pretty glorious. #artbeco #uplift #snohomish

Driving down a 2 lane highway with big trees on either side, and huge puffy clouds in the sky ahead of us.

Looking down at the river, with a line of orange-leafed trees lining the far bank, and the reflection of the trees in the water.

Driving down a two lane road, with yellow leafed trees glowing on the side of the road.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Water levels at the rivers are high with all the recent rain. The snow geese have appeared, landing in nearby open fields. I’m not sure if they’ll winter here are continue south, but they’ll be here a few weeks at least. #artbeco #snohomish #uplift

Railroad trestle bridge crosses over the Snohomish River. The water is high but calm and the trees are showing golden colors.

The Cascades are blue, with some snow on their spiky peaks, as we drive by a fallow field.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Rainy day walk in the woods with Amalthea the dog. She wasn’t a big fan of the rain and tried to turn back three times along our walk. After the third try I gave in, after all I had boots and a raincoat, she didn’t. #artbeco #uplift

A forest path leads us into the woods with bright yellow leaves in the foreground.

A black and white corgi mix dog looks back at us reproachfully. She’s wearing a rainbow colored harness with a pink leash that says ‘aren’t you a little short for stormtrooper?’ on it.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The month of October has gone by. The leaves turned, and with storms most of them are already gone- might be a harsher winter coming. Small good things help keep me sane despite the state of the country. #artbeco #gratitudejournal #uplift

A calendar grid for the month of October is filled with tiny drawings for each day, celebrating small things like pets, a costume, a pumpkin, swimming, plants.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Quick sketch/study of Elizabeth Warren. I’m choosing to focus on positives, and to me, she’s a force for good. She keeps trying, speaking up, trying to protect regular folks. Plain old pencil on paper. #artbeco #persist #elizabethwarren #sketchbook #resist

Pencil sketch of Elizabeth Warren. She’s looking thoughtfully off to the right side, her hand held slightly in front of her face.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The heartbreaking destruction of the East Wing of the White House made me find my portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, a smart, gracious person who made the East Wing where First Ladies had their offices. May we rise beyond these monsters trying to destroy everything. #artbeco #artsky #uplift #resist

A brown ink wash portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. She has a big toothy grin and is looking off to the right, wearing understated pearls on a dark top.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

RIP Drew Struzan. I had him as a teacher for a semester in art school, and learned a ton from him. He was generous with his knowledge. He had so much experience as a pro; taught us to streamline our art process, composition, use of reference, etc. So much. Condolences to his family. #drewstruzan

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Drew: The Man Behind the Poster - Official Trailer (HD) Documentary

YouTube video by JoBlo Movie Network

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

After reading The Oatmeal's take on AI, I went on to read his thoughts about Creativity. So good. SO spot-on. And awfully funny. theoatmeal.com/comics/creat...

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Eight marvelous and melancholy things I've learned about creativity - The Oatmeal

A 10 minute read.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

September. What a crazy month. I swam just under 15 miles this month, raised over $300 for the American Cancer Society. Reached out to the local art community and went to a life drawing session, went on art studios walkabout and met a bunch of cool local artists. #artbeco #gratitudejournal #uplift

A calendar page for September 2025 with small drawings filling the days- flowers, animals, things to be grateful for and enjoyed.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Sketchbook sketches from the live cams of the bears hunting salmon in Katmai National Park. It's Fat Bear Week! I watched one fellow catch a salmon, eat it, catch another and eat it very casually in the span of less than 5 minutes. He made it look easy. #artbeco #fatbearweek #sketchbook #ink #uplift

Ink sketches in a sketchbook of brown bears in streams, hunting for salmon. Or just sitting around, looking bear-ish.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It’s the end of August already, so I’m putting up my calendar of daily doodles: things that made up my days. #artbeco #uplift #gratitudejournal #bskysketchbook

Calendar page for August 2025,filled with tiny drawings for each day that mark something good from that day. Things like people playing guitars, a violin, friends, cats and a dog, garden stuff. Small stuff really, but the sort of daily stuff that fills a life.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Scenes from the last few days. TJ Burnside Clapp’s hands and 12 string guitar while playing one of her songs. Such a treat. #Worldcon2025 #artbeco #filkers #filk #musician

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

BWAHAHA!! Anyone who's used Muybridge's photo series of people and animals for animation and drawing will appreciate this! (Also, prints are available on Jaunty Art's site.) So awesome.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

A small painted cry for the White House Rose Garden as it used to be. This administration has/is doing countless awful things, and this is just one small example, but the blow is deliberate, hurtful and shows their intent to cause harm. #artbeco #resist #artsky #sketchbook

A colorful loose painting of the White House Rose Garden, with cherry trees in bloom and many flowers bordering a stretch of grass leading up to steps into the White House.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My July gratitude calendar grid. Quite a nice life going on, despite the wider world burning in flames. I feel both grateful and guilty, but I'm savoring the good bits; the alternative is constant anger and stress and that's not a good thing. #artbeco #uplift #artsky #gratitude

A calendar grid for July 2025 is filled with tiny drawings and some stickers for each day, marking one significant moment for each day. There are cats, a pie, flowers, a protest, people, etc.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Posted a little time-lapse of painting this a few days back. One of my portraits of personal heroes. He's still reporting the truth, even when it's unpopular or downright dangerous. His Steady newsletter and Substack is always worth reading. #artbeco #DanRather #Steady #artsky #protestart

A collage/mixed media painted portrait of Dan Rather, who is sitting on the left of the canvas, surrounded by words from his books, and some larger words from critics like 'opinionated', non-partisan', 'partisan', 'intense'.

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Beckett Gladney @beckettgladney.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Did a little time-lapse of drawing/painting Dan Rather, another in my sporadic painting series of heroes. A life-long journalist, Rather has stood up for the truth for many decades, and continues even now, with his Steady newsletter and website. #artbeco #DanRather #timelapseart #artsky #steady

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