Visit the art of Leon Engelen:

photographically detailed
landscape and animal oil
paintings using classical
techniques.

This site offers an extensive
virtual gallery, as well as a
valuable painting course, a
biography and information
about his book, prints and
real life expositions.

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Top: "horse with foal", 70x80 cm oil, 2009.
Left: "three horses", oil on canvas,
          80x100 cm, 2009.

"It is very important to
 know that color changes
 according to the ground
 on which it is painted. I
 always paint a dark red
 coat under everything that
 must be green like trees
 and meadows. I paint the
 ground of bricks and tiles
 dark green and the ground
 of skies warm yellow-
 orange. This is the negati-
 ve of the finished painting."
                     Leon Engelen