Russ Elliott is a designer's painter and likes the challenge of creating custom murals and paintings. His Hibiscus Restaurant project in Palm Beach Gardens, Fl. for designer Carleton Varney was a testimony of transformation he created with a stroke of a brush. This Everglades mural was a 35-foot high wall and 45-feet in length. Varney also commissioned him to do the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia as well as Peters Island and the St. Croix Palm Mural including the Rookwood restaurant in Ohio and Trump Tower with clouds and a Koi Pond in a private bathroom. The Carlyle Hotel hired him to restore the famous Bemmelman Room and the Erte murals with additional panels in the style of the former artists. Custom painting entails having a designer request a certain size and subject matter and color palette. Elliott's work can be found in private homes as well as in public and commercial properties.