Custom Landscape Paintings That Capture More Than Just Scenery
Perhaps it’s the view from your back porch where you’ve watched countless sunsets. Maybe it’s the rolling hills of your childhood hometown or the majestic mountains that call you back year after year. These landscapes hold our stories, memories whispered into rivers and valleys, shorelines and forests.
At Modern Magic, I transform these meaningful places into custom landscape paintings using rich gouache paints and an illustrative style that feels both familiar and enchanted—like places remembered through the filter of joy. Each brushstroke is intentional, each color choice meaningful, creating art that resonates with both accuracy and emotion.
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From Photo to Artistic Interpretation
My custom landscape paintings don’t simply reproduce photographic reality. They interpret places through an artistic lens that enhances their most beloved features:
The gouache medium offers vibrant color and a distinctive matte finish that brings depth and character digital prints or photographs simply cannot achieve. Each painting preserves not just the visual memory of a place, but the feeling of being there.
People Are Loving Their Custom Landscape Paintings
BRING YOUR TRAVELS HOME
There’s something particularly poignant about the landscapes we visit briefly but carry in our hearts forever. Those vacation landscapes that became unexpected anchors in our life story deserve more than to be lost in digital photo albums or diminished to small prints.
Through custom vacation paintings, I help you honor those transformative destinations:
The cliffside village in Greece where you realized you wanted to spend your life with them. The mountain lake in Colorado where your children first experienced true wilderness. The Irish countryside that connected you to ancestral roots. The quiet beach where you finally found peace after loss.
Why Custom Vacation Paintings Make Special Gifts
For anniversaries, commemorating a honeymoon or special trip together. For milestone birthdays, celebrating a bucket-list destination finally visited. For retirement, honoring the beginning of new adventures. For holiday gifts that far surpass the ordinary.
The Process
Share Your Story
Begin by telling me about the moment you want captured. Send your favorite photos, but also share what made this moment special—the small details that might not be visible but are felt deeply.
Bringing Magic to Canvas
Using premium gouache paints and years of artistic experience, I’ll create your custom landscape painting with attention to both geographical accuracy and emotional resonance
From My Studio to Your Home
Your completed painting will be professionally packaged and delivered to your door, ready to become a daily reminder of a place that shaped you.
Invest in Memories
Custom portrait paintings range from $700-$2000, reflecting the size, complexity, and hours of dedicated artistry. Unlike mass-produced prints or photographs, these paintings become treasured keepsakes—tangible connections to the places that have shaped our stories.
Perhaps you’ve been searching for a way to honor a landscape that changed you, or looking for a truly meaningful gift that will be treasured for generations.
Commission Your Custom Landscape Painting
Whether capturing the view from your own backyard or preserving the magic of a vacation landscape that stole your heart, a custom painting transforms places into keepsakes.
The world moves quickly. Art invites us to pause, to remember, to cherish. Let’s create something together that tells your story in color and light.
Frequently Asked Questions
For individual landscape paintings, 3-4 weeks is ideal. For special occasions or holiday gifts, I recommend ordering 6-8 weeks in advance during peak seasons. Remember that if you do professional framing you’ll need another 2-4 weeks.
Absolutely! Many clients have photos from different angles or times of day. I can work with multiple references to create the ideal composition that best captures the essence of the place.
Custom landscape paintings typically range from 8″×10″ to 18″×24″, with the size often depending on the complexity of the landscape and where you plan to display the finished piece.
Heck yes! I love making a piece as personal as possible. So whether it’s changing the color scheme to fit your decor, adding in extra details, or tweaking the background to fit what a place felt like more than what it literally looked like, I’m here for it. The beauty of art is that we are going for a feeling, not reality.
Say Hello!
Tell me about the custom landscape painting you’ve been dreaming of!