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Doug Engberg

​Art on Leather

Artist Statement

"Loving to draw all my life there was nothing I wouldn’t try in the art world mediums. I have done oil paint, pencil drawing, and burning on wood.

But I decided to try burning leather to see how that will work, and now I hook on it.  Start buying pieces of leather and stretching them over canvas it works but hard to get it flat and not to bounce.  When I started glue leather on wood, and it work so well with the hard surface.

With each art piece I can see the small details that will work from burning deep for the bison fur to the light shading of the tee-pee smoke.  It takes time and patience in do this, once the HOT tip touches the leather there is no turn back.

I get my ideas from magazine and the internet mixing one photo of the background to the second photo the main subject.  

At first in my early work, I just did the burning on the leather and now I have been adding color from soft tints to heavy coats to bring them out or adding a color to their eyes, I starting to like this a little bit more to give the extra WOW factor.  
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I hope you enjoy the art that I have created."

Touring Schedule

 Lake Region Heritage Center 
January 1 - 31, 2023
Ellendale Opera House Gallery
October 6 - 27, 2023
Long X Arts Foundation
November 3 - December 29, 2023
The Arts Center
April 11 - May 18, 2024
MonDak Heritage Center
July 31 - August 31, 2024
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PO Box 714, Williston, ND 58802 | (701) 557-9443​
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NDAGA is sponsored in part with funds from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • Home
  • About
    • Member Galleries
    • 2024 Annual Meeting
  • Exhibitions
    • Maria Borkowski
    • Heather Thomas Olson
    • Anita Helman & Jill Edinger
    • Micah Bloom
    • Melissa Gordon
    • Debbie Kauffman
    • Rosanne Olson
    • The Sketchbook Project
    • Eric A. Johnson
    • Sabrina Ramey
    • Marilyn Niewoehner
    • Past Exhibitions >
      • Greg Walter
      • Donovan Widmer
      • Doug Engberg
      • Erica Thune
      • Charles Lee
      • Morgan Wagner
      • Arvin K Davis Jr
      • Charles Beck
      • Matthew Anderson & Michael Conlan
      • 2020 Governor's Photo Contest
      • Jamie Azevedo
      • Lino Azevedo
      • BisMan Writers Guild
      • Susan Brekke
      • Johnathan Campbell
      • David Driesbach
      • Jim Falck
      • Carol Fielhaber
      • Lacey Holmen
      • Mark Holter
      • Hooshang Khorasani
      • Sharon Linnehan
      • Jennifer & Brian Matthews
      • Roxi Mathis
      • Mitch Melberg
      • Paul & Dakota Noot
      • Matthew Norton
      • ND State Parks
      • Katie Vasbinder
      • NOTSTOCK
      • Deana Novak >
        • Deana Novak
      • Linda Olson
      • Walter Piehl
      • Mack Schroer
      • Dawson Shafer
      • Dan Smith
      • Suite 1 Artists
      • Beau Theige
      • Erica Thune
      • Erica Thune
      • Jessica Wachter
      • Avis Veikley
      • Emily Williams-Wheeler
  • Touring Proposals
  • Resources
    • Art Talk
    • Art Connect Newsletter
  • Donate
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  • Memberships