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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
Long X Arts Foundation
November 3 - December 29, 2023
The Arts Center
April 11 - May 18, 2024
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​Minot State University, 500 University Ave W, Minot, ND 58707 | (701) 858-3242
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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
  • 2022 Proposals
  • Annual Meeting
  • Exhibitions
    • BisMan Writers Guild
    • Susan Brekke
    • Doug Engberg
    • Jim Falck
    • Lacey Holmen
    • Charles Lee
    • Mitch Melberg
    • Deana Novak
    • Linda Olson
    • Dawson Shafer
    • Jessica Wachter
    • Past Exhibitions >
      • 2020 Governor's Photo Contest
      • Matthew Anderson & Michael Conlan
      • Jamie Azevedo
      • Lino Azevedo
      • Johnathan Campbell
      • David Driesbach
      • Carol Fielhaber
      • Mark Holter
      • Hooshang Khorasani
      • Sharon Linnehan
      • Jennifer & Brian Matthews
      • Roxi Mathis
      • Paul & Dakota Noot
      • Matthew Norton
      • NOTSTOCK
      • Walter Piehl
      • Mack Schroer
      • Dan Smith
      • Suite 1 Artists
      • Beau Theige
      • Erica Thune
      • Avis Veikley
      • Emily Williams-Wheeler
  • Contact
  • Resources