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Gita Lloyd

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Born

in Seattle WA, The United States

Website

https://www.gitalloyd.com/

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Children's

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At age ten, Gita set her first goal; to make anything she could think of come out of her hands and onto a piece of paper. She gave herself ten years to accomplish that goal. Like her heroes Delacroix, Da Vinci and Picasso, she wanted to understand and observe the world around her and be able to paint or draw anything.

In 1973 she dropped out of the Visual Art Studies Program at the University of Texas. She considered the training too undisciplined. Instead she opted for an apprenticeship in the animation business. “I wanted a good foundation in classical drawing,” Lloyd says. “In those days animation was one of the few places to find that.”

She soon moved from Dallas to Los Angeles where she became known as one of the best Disney-style brush At age ten, Gita set her first goal; to make anything she could think of come out of her hands and onto a piece of paper. She gave herself ten years to accomplish that goal. Like her heroes Delacroix, Da Vinci and Picasso, she wanted to understand and observe the world around her and be able to paint or draw anything.

In 1973 she dropped out of the Visual Art Studies Program at the University of Texas. She considered the training too undisciplined. Instead she opted for an apprenticeship in the animation business. “I wanted a good foundation in classical drawing,” Lloyd says. “In those days animation was one of the few places to find that.”

She soon moved from Dallas to Los Angeles where she became known as one of the best Disney-style brush inkers in the business. From Bambi to Power Rangers to Clifford the Big Red Dog, she drew hundreds of mass market children’s books becoming one of the few licensing illustrators to have her name placed boldly on title pages. “That was a great training ground and the money was good back then,” she explained.

Nevertheless, she never lost track of her original goal. She continued her apprenticeship with “the Old Guys,” as they were known in the business. “They were only too glad to impart what they knew before retiring, but,” she recalls, “I had always noticed that when these great old Disney artists started to paint for themselves, they didn’t know what to do. It was heartbreaking. I was told, ’Gita, never to give it all to Disney, just keep working on your own stuff.’ I listened! ”

Gita determined fairly early on to keep her distance from the studios and remained a Hollywood freelancer. “I wouldn’t let what happened to the Old Guys happen to me,” she said. Defining herself as Dionysian, her own fine art does not depict, it experiences. “My work is athletic, active and direct, like Cezanne once said, I make a ‘photo plate’ of myself.” she adds, “And after around half a million drawings, my very strokes and lines have become my language. My works arise as naturally and beautifully as clouds.”

She was by then painting in series, large diptych portraits, the 5000 FACES Project, the Landscape Heritage Project, the LOVE series ― she determined to make her own scene. She became an arts performer, an arts teacher and arts speaker.

She began creating works tied to places and their people. In 2009 the 4Culture Site Specific program brought her up to Fall City and Auburn, WA, to do performance paintings. As a teaching artist she taught thousands of children in programs of her own development for various school districts. She has lectured at various writers’ conferences on the mysteries of the Mass Market. She painted ‘live’ on TV and in sporting arena’s, at music and dance events and even an opera.

Her public work, Bakersfield ALIVE!, prompted certificates of recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives and the California State Senate and Assembly. “Not quite how I expected things to go,” she said. “But I've found away to connect with my times as artists have done throughout the centuries. I have created works of poetic power and beauty and as Gauguin once said, “It is enough for the artist to have worked to create a chain in the link that is Art." This I have done.

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	Clifford's Doodle Pad really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meet Me at the Fair 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snow Wonder 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meet Me at the Fair (Dragon Tales 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clifford Loves Me by Thea Feldman, Gita Lloyd (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations), Eric Binder (Illustrations) 3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clifford the Big Red Dog: Mystery of the Kibble Crook by Norman Bridwell, J. Elizabeth Mills (Goodreads Author), Gita Lloyd (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.66 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cleo Cooperates (Clifford's Big Red Ideas, #2) by Peter Koblish, Gita Lloyd (Goodreads Author), Eric Binder 3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clifford's Touch-and-Feel Day by Dena Neusner, Gita Lloyd (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations), Eric Binder (Illustrations) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grandpa's Airplane by Kirk Thomas, Marthy Johnson (Editor), Gita Lloyd (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happy Wholiday, Mr. Grinch! by Ted Enik (Goodreads Author), Gita Lloyd (Goodreads Author), Jeffrey Price (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars