Copyright (c) 2009 Sherry Tingley

Designer checks are now being created with images by famous illustrators and painters. Thomas Kinkade, Kathy Davis and Mary Engelbreit are just a few of the famous artists that have their artwork printed on checks.

Check printing companies have the ability to print anything they want for the background image on the checks that people order. They have added some very artistic styles and designs to checks.

The background designs that you can enjoy include marbelized designs, tie dye themes, floral images, graphic designs in circles, triangles and any other shapes you can imagine. Gone are the days where your only choices where the safety blue background or the boring green safety backgrounds.

One special artist that has her designs on checks is Mary Engelbreit. She began her career as an artist at a very early age. When she was 10 years old she had a special place in her home that was deemed, the studio. She loved drawing and eventually began her first successful publications through a greeting card company. She now has her own company called the Mary Engelbreit Studios. Her illustrations are available on personal checks, checkbook covers, debit card covers, address labels and bill organizers. They have a playful, childlike theme and give you that unique designer theme.

Another artist that has her artwork on designer checks is Kathy Davis. Kathy, a world renown and respected designer has created thousands of artistic designs. Coming from a career in teaching, her new artistic designs have helped her to succeed in these tough economic times. In 2007, she was so successful that she was making $15 million dollars in annual revenue.

Her mission is to “scatter joy.” She is well known for helping people to create their most abundant life. You will find her artwork on stamps, checks, checkbook covers and many home decor items. Kathy likes to use watercolors in her illustrations of flowers and nature. The designs she creates are cheerful, using bright colors and a playful brush strokes. She has made a great contribution to the designer checks available now for you to enjoy.

Our last artist to discuss is Thomas Kinkade. His work is well known for the conservative old American themes. He often paints pictures of quaint homes, gardens, churches and has Christian based ideologies throughout his works. He often hides the letter N in his pictures in honor of his wife, Nanette. With revenues in the area of $53 million dollars, his mass reproductions have become well known. In the line of printed designer checks, you’ll find some of his most famous church paintings with scripture verses on them as well as his garden designs. Address labels, checkbook covers and checks have these designs printed on them.

With the large variety of designer checks available to the public now, there is no reason to not enjoy using them to brighten up your personal image and give you pleasure each and every time you write a check.

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality”. These were the words spoken by child prodigy Pablo Picasso – a Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist and ceramist who is considered by many to be the 20th century’s best art genius. No other artist of the modern period achieved the range of influence which Picasso reached over twentieth century abstract art. Picasso is in all probability best known for the part he played in pioneering and developing Cubism. Picasso entered into marriage twice and was the father of four children, three of which were born outside wedlock.

Born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881, Pablo Picasso was the son of a painter by the name of Don José Ruiz Blasco. His mother’s name was Doña Maria Picasso y Lopez. From a young age Picasso showed an exceptional talent for drawing. His father, realizing Picasso’s outstanding talent handed over his palette and brushes to him and swore to never again paint as long as he lived. In 1895 Picasso’s family moved to Barcelona. Picasso – aged 14 – took only one day to pass the entrance examination for the higher class at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts.

Picasso had his first exhibition in 1900 in Barcelona. That same year, he went to Paris – where he settled in 1904 – and his creativity flourished. The period from 1900 to 1904 was known as his ‘Blue Period’. This period of Picasso’s art is characterized by the utilization of different blue shades. These shades underlined the miserable lives of his subjects; he portrayed beggars, prostitutes and alcoholics. The suicide of Carlos Casagemas, Picasso’s friend; and Picasso’s trip to Spain were the stimuli for his Blue Period. His abstract art works during this period included a portrait of Cassagemas after his death, The Frugal Repast (1904) and Portrait of Soler.

The years 1905 and 1906 saw Picasso shifting from the dark Blue Period to a cheery Rose Period, featuring pink and orange colours and with circus-associated subjects. Most of Picasso’s abstract art paintings during the Rose Period were influenced by the affectionate relationship he had with Fernande Olivier. Following numerous variations and studies, Picasso came out with ‘Les demoiselles d’Avignon’, – his first Cubist work in 1907. African artefacts were the inspiration for this painting which critics considered to be only a copy of African ethnic art. In the following years Picasso along with his new artist friend Georges Braque explored the prospects of Cubism.

Picasso’s abstract art phase from 1908 to 1911 was an Analytic Cubism phase. He and Braque created landscape Cubist paintings using neutral colours and monochromatic browns. The Analytic Cubism phase was followed by the Synthetic Cubism phase which lasted up to 1919. Picasso produced his most celebrated art work ‘Guernica’ during his surrealist and neoclassical phase. For many, this large work done while the Spanish Civil War was in progress; was a depiction of the inhumanity, despair and violence of war.

Picasso was one of the participants in a sculpture exhibition held in 1949, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His final works incorporated a variety of styles and were more expressive and colourful. Pablo Picasso passed away, aged 91, on the 8th of April, 1973 in Mougins, France.

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LET US CLEAN THIS SCUM. AND ADD SOME DIVINITY. OF HOPE. OF
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INDIA’s DIVERSITY IS ITS BIGGEST USP.
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WE ARE A HOME TO MANY CULTURES.
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Imagine a rendezvous for these art talents to meet and make
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WHICH WILL BE QUITE VISIBLE. LET’S JOIN THESE DOTS and ADD
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