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Fall Park
Acrylic paint and spackle
on canvas, 29" x 20"
Apr 2025
Landscape Faces
Acrylic paint and drywall compound
on canvas, 36" x 36" x 2"
October 2024
Illusions
Acrylic paint on canvas, 40" x 28"
April 2024
Encaustic Seasons
Encaustic wax on wood, each 7" x 5"
April 2024
Freedom Flight
Acrylic Paint and texture paste
on wood panel, 21" x 21"
March 2024
Angry Forest
Acrylic paint, and air dry clay
on canvas, 16" x 12"
February 2024
Mountain Stream
Acrylic paint, spray paint, texture paste,
and band sawed dimensional elements on canvas, 18" x 24"
February 2024
Minnesota Nighttime
Acrylic paint, glitter,
and embellishments on wood, 20" x 24"
February 2024
MN Winter
Acrylic paint on canvas, 18" x 24"
April 2023
Moral Decision
Acrylic paint, texture paste, and glitter, 18" x 24"
November 2022
Foggy Morning
Acrylic paint, raffia, and glue
on canvas, 16" x 12"
November 2022
Leaves Impressions
Acrylic paint on canvas, 12" x 16"
August 2022
Sunlit Forest
Acrylic paint and texture paste on canvas,
30" x 20" x 2"
April 2022
Rocky Waterfall
Acrylic paint, texture paste,
and glitter on canvas, 24" x 18"
April 2022
Distortion
Acrylic paint on canvas, 18 x 24" x 2"
March 2022
Symbiotic Tree
Acrylic paint on canvas, 10" x 10"
March 2022
Moonrise
Acrylic paint on canvas, 10" x 10"
July 2021
Four Seasons
Acrylic paint on canvas, 10" x 20"
July 2021
Aurora Swirl
Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 24" x 18"
June 2021 -
Polymer Clay Earrings
$10 each
Polymer Clay Barrettes
$3 each
Polymer Clay Glass Bowls
$5 each
Polymer Clay Ornaments
$3 small, $5 large
6" Polymer Clay Flowers
$5 each
Polymer Clay Buttons
$1 each
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Snapshot of Life
Watercolor prints on paper with various embellishments
like lace, moss, wood, polyfill, glitter, paper pulp, etc.
Each panel is about 30" x 11"
October 2024
Birch Forest
Reduction Wood Cut Shina Block,
Oil based ink print on canvas, 9" x 12"
April 2022
Trees Have Feelings Too
Block print from photo
printed on a printing press, 10" x 14"
October 2022 -
Amazing Birch Trees
Risograph Digital Poster 17" x 11"
December 2023
Minnesota Biomes
Risograph Digital Poster 17" x 11"
November 2023
Bonfire in the Woods
Digital print, 12" x 12"
March 2024
Wish You Were Here
Digital Animation
March 2024
Fall Park
Digital Animation
October 2024
Rock Falls
Digital Animation
October 2024
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Woven Bags
Yarn
Aug 2025
Crocheted Hair Scrunchies
Yarn
Aug 2025
Rainbow Sunset bag
Yarn
May 2025
Woven bag
Yarn
May 2025
Purple Night Woven bag
Yarn
May 2025
Spring Cherry Blossom
Yarn and buttons
March 2025
Winter Landscape
Yarn and found objects
February 2025
Where Land and Ocean Meet
Yarn and found objects
February 2025
Moonlight on Water
Yarn and found objects
April 2025
Woven Aurora
Yarn
April 2025
Sunset Tree
Yarn
May 2025
Crucifix
Yarn, foam, and found objects, 5 ft tall
May 2025
Maple Tree
Fabric, paint, and found objects, 6 ft tall
March 2025
Seasons
Acrylic on canvas with crocheted trees and clouds 15" × 30"
April 2025
Haralson
Yarn, foam, and found objects, 6 ft tall
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Paintings - nemaa.org/artists/mndreamart/
Upcycled Socktopus $5
Woven Bags sized for bottles $10
Woven Bags $45
Crocheted Hair Scrunchies $3 - $5
Jewelry - Earrings $10
Jewelry - Earrings $10
Candles $2 - $10
Zines $1 each
Lip Balms $1 each
Risograph - 8" x 10" print $10
Risograph - 10" x 14" print $10
Risograph - 17" x 11" poster $10
Risograph - 17" x 11" poster $10
Color Variations - 17" x 11" posters $10 each
More gifts at mnmunchies.com
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Anti-ICE Soaps
100% of the proceeds of these 5 soaps go to those sheltering in place to avoid being captured by ICE. For all other soap sales and website sales, I will donate 20% of the total to Mutual Aid for those in need.
F*** ICE!
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cinnamon, eucalyptus and peppermint – so cold with some heat to do some melting!
ICE – OUT!
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with geranium and citronella Power to repel those insects!
PROTEST!
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with orange, grapefruit, lavender, juniper, oregano, majoram, and other flower oils – Let’s do this! Power to the People!!!
RESIST!
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps grounded with the MN woodsy scents of pine with patchouli, rose, citrus, frankincense, and vanilla to bond us together as one in solidarity.
Strength!
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with ginger, rose, gardenia, green and white tea scents. Together we are stronger!
Holidays and Celebrations
New Year, New Me!
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with orange, ginger, bergamot, grapefruit, sandalwood, eucalyptus, frankincense, and juniper berry
Be My Valentine
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with lemongrass, rose, gardenia, honeysuckle, cherry blossom, vanilla, and sandalwood
Girls Night Out
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with rum, margarita, and other fruity scents
Luck O’ the Irish
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cucumber, melon, green tea, orange, cedarwood, patchouli, and mint
Easter Morning
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with gardenia, lily, frankincense, myrrh, sandalwood, vanilla, and grapefruit
Earth Day
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with patchouli, tumeric, ginko, grass, cedarwood, juniper berry, pine, and myrrh
Wedding Season
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with lemon, orange, frankincense, jasmine, warm vanilla, rose, gardenia, and honeysuckle
Let Freedom Ring!
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with lemongrass, jasmine, pine, citronella, and vanilla
Halloween
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cinnamon pumpkin, caramel apple, rainbow candy, frankincense, myrrh, vanilla, patchouli
FrankinPine
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with pine and frankincense
Thanksgiving Celebration
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cinnamon pumpkin, caramel apple, clove, ginger, vanilla, and sandalwood
Holiday Season
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with peppermint and pine oils
Christmas Spirit
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cinnamon, frankincense, myrrh, orange, clove, pine, peppermint, and juniper berry scents
Frankincense and Myrrh
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with frankincense and myrrh
New Year’s Eve
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with spiced cider, orange, pine, cranberry, cinnamon, warm vanilla, rum, and margarita
Wassail
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with apple, spiced cider, clove, cassia, cardamom, ginger, orange, and lemon
Nature and Outdoors
Bergamot Clove
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with bergamot and clove oils
Cedarwood, Patchouli, and Tumeric
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cedarwood, patchouli and turmeric oils
Cherry Sakura
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cherry and cherry blossom scent
Cranberry Pine
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cranberry and pine scents
Farmer’s Market
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cardamom, cinnamon, clove, ginger, majoram, oregano, rosemary, basil and tumeric
Forest Walk
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with pine, patchouli, strawberry, and lemongrass oils
Frankincense YlangYlang
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with frankincense and ylangylang oils
Fresh Air
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with ylang ylang, cherry blossom, sweet orange, and peppermint oil blends
Jasmine, Bergamot, and Lemon Grass
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with jasmine, bergamot, and lemon grass oils
Lavender Jasmine
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with lavender and jasmine oils
Lavender Rose
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with lavender and rose oils
Lemon Bergamot
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with bergamot and lemon oils
Mom’s Garden
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with bergamot, jasmine, lavender, lemongrass, rose, rosemary oils
Mountain Rain
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with mountain rain scents
Patchouli Tea Tree
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with patchouli and tea tree oils
Pine Frankincense
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with pine and frankincense
Rosemary Pine
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with rosemary and pine oils
Sandalwood Frangipani
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with sandalwood and frangipani oils
Health and Well-Being
Anti-Aging
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with clary sage, frankincense, geranium, lavender, and lemon
Breathe Easy
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with eucalyptus, peppermint, and tea tree oils.
Clear Skin (anti-acne)
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with clary sage, lavender, and tea tree oil
Dad Hugs
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with sandalwood, pomegranate vanilla, hazelnut, ginko, orange, patchouli
Happiness
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with clary sage, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, kumquat, and ginkgo oil blends
Love
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with white tea, kiwi fruit, mugwort, lily, and bamboo scents
Peaceful Protest
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with orange, grapefruit, lavender, juniper, oregano, majoram, and other flower oils – Let’s do this! Power to the People!!!
Relaxation
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with chamomile, blue campanula, mangosteen, sandalwood, and rosemary
Serenity
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with jasmine, bamboo, white tea, kumquat, spearmint, and peppermint oil blends
Strength
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with ginger, rose, gardenia, green and white tea scents. Together we are stronger!
Summer Star Gazing
Double Butter Soap
Ingredients: Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cut grass, geranium and citronella
Sweet Dreams
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with lavender, ylang ylang, neroli, frankincense, mayflower, and sweet orange oil
Foods and Dessert Scents
Apple Cinnamon Pumpkin
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter with apple cinnamon pumpkin scent
Apricot Peach
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with apricot and peach scents
Caramel Apple
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with caramel apple scent
Cherry Vanilla
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cherry and vanilla scents
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with chocolate chip cookie scents
Citrus Fruit
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with lemon, orange, and grapefruit scents
Cucumber Melon
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cucumber and melon scents
Honey Almond
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with honey and almond scents
Mango Peach
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with mango and peach scents
MN Proud!
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps grounded with the MN woodsy scents of pine with patchouli, rose, citrus, frankincense, and vanilla to bond us together as one in solidarity.
Oatmeal Cookie
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with oatmeal cookie scent
Orange, Ginger, & Clove
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with orange, ginger, and clove
Peach Apple Grapefruit
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with apple and peach scents
Pear Vanilla
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with pear vanilla scents
Pink Lemonade
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with pink lemonade scent
Pomegranate Vanilla
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with pomegranate and vanilla
Pumpkin Pie
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with pumpkin pie scent
Rum Cake
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with rum cake scents
Sugar Cookie
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with vanilla and sugar cookie scents
Tangerine Litchi
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with tangerine and litchi scents
Warm Vanilla Sugar
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with warm vanilla sugar scents
By request, I can make a scented soap with your favorite scents or that of a person/character that you love. Here are some that I have made:
Cleopatra (Inspired)
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with myrrh, frankincense, cassia, cardamom, rose, neroli, and ylang ylang
Queen Nefertiti (Inspired)
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with frankincense, myrrh, lotus, cinnamon bark, vetiver, orchid, honey, jasmine, and musk
King Tut (Inspired)
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with spikenard, frankincense, myrrh, lotus, vetiver, sandalwood, musk, and cedarwood
Michelle Obama (Inspired)
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with sandalwood, cedarwood, peach, apricot, lemon, white musk, jasmine
Princess Diana (Inspired)
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with jasmine, orange blossom, vanilla, lily of the valley, rose, violet, musk, ylang ylang, sandalwood, cedarwood, tonka bean, and amber
Taylor Swift (Inspired)
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with sandalwood, jasmine, rose, freesia, ylang ylang, peony appple, tangerine litchi, vanilla, amber, and musk
Miku (Inspired)
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with bergamot, neroli, vanilla, musk, violet, rose, cinnamon, almond, wood, and tonka bean
Ena (Inspired)
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with almond, caramel, coconut, vanilla, jasmine, gardenia, amber, musk, peach
Mizuki (Inspired)
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with lemon, cucumber, bergamot, jasmine, rose, cherry blossom, musk, lemon zest, amber, and vetiver
Kanade (Inspired)
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with lemon, green apple, pineapple, grapefruit, rose, lily, jasmine, musk, amber, lily of the valley, cedarwood
Gwen
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with bergamot, pine, eucalyptus, orange, and vanilla
Julia
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with bergamot, cranberry pine, lavender, and patchouli
Denise
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with cherry blossom, cardamom, frankincense, bamboo, neroli, osmanthus, sandalwood, citronella, frangipani, vanilla amber, and lily of the valley
Kelly
Double Butter Soap
Shea butter and mango seed butter soaps with rose, neroli, waterlily, cardamom, orange, sandalwood, lavender, lemongrass, and jasmine
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MN Dream Art Monthly Subscriptions
(See Gift Shop tab for examples of what could be sent)
- ATC (artist trading card; credit card sized) $1
- Flavored Lip Balms $1 + shipping
- Painted Postcards $2
- Zines (mini magazines) $2
- Stationery - greeting cards, postcards, letter paper with envelopes… $2
- Hair Clips $3 + shipping
- Double Butter Soaps $5 + shipping
- Scented candle in a Tin $5 + shipping
- Artsy socks (let me know your sock size) $5 + shipping
- Earring subscription - choose between studs and hooks, small, medium, or large size, or a random assortment $10 each + shipping
- Landscape Painting 5 x 7 on canvas $20
- Weaving 5 x 7 $20
- Mono print 5 x 7 $20
- Screened and dyed T-shirt - indicate your size (sm - 2x) $20 + shipping
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Sign up by sending an email with your subscription preferences. Payments can be made through Venmo at Denise-Lau-7 or through PayPal (select to pay either monthly or 1x yearly)
Shipping prices may vary depending on the size and weight of the subscribed item, between $1 - $10 typically
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Classes
Workshops and Paint Nights will be offered as an open event. Check back for more details.
You can also book a private event. Minimum 4 people, maximum 8 people if I am hosting for you.
I can also come to you if you are having an event or party that you are hosting. Preferably no more than 15. Minimum is still 4. I will bring all of the supplies to you and you can choose the subject of the painting we will be doing.
Commisions
I am open for landscape type commissions. I have painted a large rain barrel on commission, several landscape paintings (acrylic paint on canvas) of multiple sizes, and a mural. Contact me if you would like me to paint something special for you.
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Artist Biograghy
Denise Lau is a landscape dimensional painter and mono-printmaker who will graduate from the University of Minnesota in May of 2025 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her work has been seen in Art-A-Whirl, F-O-K Creatives, Squirrel Haus, the MN Zoo’s Hanfl Nature Center, and numerous Regis West exhibits. She has accepted individual commissions, participated in North East Minneapolis Art Association’s 10 x 10 Art in the Round fundraiser, was the president of the University of Minnesota’s Printmaking Club, Bohemian Press, and a member of the Sculpture Club. She has coordinated the Van Cleve Park art fairs for the past two years and has painted 30 feet of the Gateway Mural near this park in Minneapolis. Her work is in numerous private collections throughout the Midwest where she works as a freelance artist and instructor.
Artist Statement
I am a mixed-media experimental painter and printmaker. I love to learn new techniques and invent my own, expanding my knowledge of processes and utilizing what I have learned to create landscapes with a twist of reality. I am drawn to landscapes and making repeated images using different processes, mediums, colors, embellishments, and textures.
My landscapes are colorful and sometimes surreal because when I look at landscapes I see faces in the trees, clouds, and everywhere. I enjoy sharing what I see in my paintings so my viewers can see how the world looks to me. Oftentimes, the trunk of the trees have faces and the branches are arms with fingers.
My acrylic paintings include a variety of dimensional elements like texture paste, wood, glitter, fabrics, raffia, hand cut band-sawed wood pieces, and more.
I have tried just about every way there is to make prints. Once I made a book that used the same image but it was printed multiple different ways like intaglio, screen printed, laser cut, image transfer and many other ways. I recently finished another series, “Snapshot of Life,” where I began by drawing a landscape digitally and then cut it out onto an acrylic sheet with the laser cutter. I then painted it with watercolors 16 different ways and put it through the printing press to make monotype prints of the same image. I used dimensional elements to emphasize the time of day, season, or the stages of a forest fire. There were 4 sets of 4 images mounted on their own long board each with a theme. I am currently working on expanding this series into 32 dimensional monoprints.
Link to Resumé
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Thank you for your interest in MN Dream Art. Feel free to contact me at MNdreamArt@gmail.com