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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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Custom Portrait Paintings

There’s a certain kind of magic in places that have moved us—the way light filters through autumn trees, how fog nestles between distant mountains, or the particular blue where sky meets ocean. These aren’t just scenes; they’re moments that have shaped us.

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

Katie does an amazing job creating pieces that will catch your eye. Highly recommend for anyone looking to add some a touch of “magic” to your surroundings.
Diana R.
Customer
Katie puts so much thought and effort into all of her work. I love how she does everything with intentionality — not to mention I love the colors she always incorporates!
MaryAnne B.
Customer
Katie’s intentionality and deep understanding of her subjects gives her art a staying power and repeated ability to wow viewers over and over again.
Emily B.
Customer

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.

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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

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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.

Clear images that show the landscape’s distinctive features work wonderfully. Don’t worry about “perfect” photography—I can work from multiple references and enhance elements as desired. Even photos with people in them can work, as I can focus on the landscape itself.

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.

Don’t worry—I’m experienced in working with vacation snapshots. Often I can find additional reference images of famous locations, and for personal locations, we can discuss the key elements that need to be included.
Gouache paintings should be framed under glass and kept away from direct sunlight to preserve their vibrant colors for generations. You will also want this professionally framed to ensure that it is safe from outside elements.

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!

Find Your Creative Spark

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2-hours of painting here in Denver with community you’ll love, story that will change you, and inspiration that will keep you creating long after the workshop ends.