Create Your Custom Legacy Portrait

Honor your beloved companion with a personalized AI-enhanced portrait that celebrates the profound bond you shared.

At K9Hearts, we transform your cherished memories into Legacy memorial art. Your favorite photo may not be perfect—it might be older, softly focused, or taken in less-than-ideal light—but the emotion it holds is what truly matters. Every image carries a story, a bond, and a moment of love that deserves to be honored.

Preserving these moments through art is an important step in the healing process. Therapeutic-inspired memorial art allows us to gently move through grief while safeguarding the memories that remain close to our hearts.

The colors, elements, and environments used in your custom portrait are carefully selected and grounded in evidence-based research that supports emotional comfort and healthy movement through grief and loss. Nothing is chosen randomly; each visual detail is designed to feel calm, safe, and restorative.

Every portrait is created with intention and care to reflect your dog’s unique spirit and to offer a quiet space of remembrance, comfort, and connection as you continue your healing journey.

How does it work? K9 Hearts has developed a 3 step process.

  1. Share Your Story Complete our thoughtful questionnaire and upload 1-4 photos of your beloved companion

  2. We Create Your Portrait Your photos are professionally enhanced and transformed into a beautiful memorial portrait (7-10 business days).

  3. Receive & Cherish Download your high-resolution digital file and print it to display in your home, creating a lasting tribute.

The Classic Legacy Portrait - $67

Close-up of a black German Shepherd dog looking at the camera with tongue out, wearing a chain collar.

Timeless elegance capturing your dog's gentle spirit. Perfect for honoring their memory with grace and simplicity.

Comparison of two photos of a black German Shepherd dog. The left photo shows the dog outdoors on a dirt path with green foliage, labeled 'Your original photo & memory.' The right photo is a professional studio portrait with a plain background, labeled 'Your healing memorial portrait.' In between is a beige panel with text about the importance of memories and healing.

Why the Does the “Classic Legacy Portrait” Support Healing?

Grief often holds our memories in their most painful form. When we lose someone we love, the images that come to mind are sometimes connected to illness, age, or the moment of goodbye rather than the life and joy that came before. Research in grief-informed art therapy shows that transforming memories into gentle, comforting visual forms helps the heart reconnect to love rather than loss.

This tier is designed to support emotional regulation and remembrance through softness, warmth, and familiarity. The colors and lighting used are chosen to calm the nervous system, while natural tones and environments help restore a sense of safety and peace. Studies show that green and earth-based hues, especially those inspired by nature, promote emotional grounding and reduce stress during grief.

Your portrait is not about perfection. It is about helping your memory feel safe again.


About gently shifting the image of your dog from loss back to love, presence, and connection.


This is often the first step in healing.


The Forest Healing Portriat - $97

A large brown dog holding a stick in its mouth in a forest setting.

Nature-inspired memorial celebrating the bond you shared. Ideal for those who found peace and joy exploring the outdoors together.

Side-by-side comparison of two images of the same brown dog holding a stick in its mouth. The left image shows the dog outdoors on a paved surface, wearing a collar and leash. The right image shows a similar dog in a forest with a blurred background. Between the images is a message about the importance of love and memory in healing, with a statement about honoring and restoring love. The bottom left corner reads "Your original photo & memory" and the bottom right corner reads "Your healing memorial portrait."

Why Does The “Forest Healing Portrait” Support Healing?

Grief lives not only in the heart, but in the body and nervous system. Creative memorial art allows loss to be processed gently, helping the mind and heart maintain loving bonds while transforming painful memories into meaningful connection.

This tier is rooted in nature because natural environments are known to calm the nervous system and restore emotional balance. Forest imagery, warm light, and earth-based tones encourage grounding, reduce stress, and create a sense of safety during grief.

Being visually and emotionally connected to nature supports emotional regulation, lowers anxiety, and creates space for reflection and acceptance. When grief is held within a peaceful environment, the heart can breathe again.

Your Forest Healing Memorial is designed to reflect this process. It offers a quiet space where memory becomes presence, love remains active, and healing is allowed to unfold gently, without force or urgency.


The Creative Legacy Portrait - $197

A close-up photo of a large black and brown dog, possibly a Rottweiler, with a serious expression, against a dark background.

Our most expressive tribute, celebrating your dog's unique personality. A bold artistic interpretation that honors their vibrant spirit.

A digital collage with a beige background featuring a portrait of a dog on the right and a smaller photo of the same dog on the left. The large portrait shows the dog lying down with a brown, dark-furred face and expressive eyes. The smaller photo shows the dog sitting up on a couch, with the caption "Original Memory" underneath. The title "The Creative Legacy Portrait" is at the top, and a description beside the smaller photo reads, "From a photo you took to a portrait that honors her life."

How Does the Legacy Portrait Supports Healing?

Grief is not only about remembering; it is also about meaning. When loss begins to soften, many people feel a natural desire to honor the full story of the bond they shared. Creative, expressive memorial art supports this stage of grief by allowing memory to transform into legacy. Art therapy research shows that creating symbolic and personalized artwork helps people integrate loss, preserve loving bonds, and find purpose in remembrance.

This tier is more expressive because creative expression gives shape to emotions that are too complex for words alone. Studies show that when grief is given artistic form, people experience greater emotional clarity, reduced distress, and a deeper sense of connection to what remains meaningful.

Legacy-based art allows love to remain active rather than frozen in pain. Creating or receiving a tribute that reflects personality, spirit, and individuality supports what grief researchers call continuing bonds—the healthy process of staying emotionally connected while moving forward.

This tier honors your dog not only as a memory, but as a presence that shaped your life. It transforms grief into tribute, sadness into expression, and remembrance into something that can be celebrated as much as it is cherished.

Your Creative Legacy Portrait is designed to hold both love and loss together, allowing healing to unfold through beauty, meaning, and personal story.

Choose your portrait package, and then you’ll be guided to a short questionnaire that takes about 5 minutes to complete. You’ll upload your photos and share what made your dog special so your memorial can be created with care, meaning, and intention.

The Classical Legacy Portrait
The Healing Forest Portrait
The Creative Legacy Portrait

What's Included

✓ Professional AI enhancement

✓ High-resolution digital file

✓ Unlimited personal printing rights

✓ 7-10 business day delivery

✓ Created with compassion by someone who understands pet loss