After

One of Richard Haas’s largest murals, 21 stories on three sides of the building.

Before

One of Richard Haas’s largest murals, 21 stories on three sides of the building.

Ceiling 2

Since the mid 1990’s the restoration committee for the Millikin Homestead has engaged my studio in a variety of decorative projects: a recreation of the dining room ceiling mural, decorative painting in two ground floor parlors and an upstairs master bedroom. In 2012 the central hallway ceilings were recreated. Most of this is done in the Chicago studio on canvas in artists’ oils and applied on site like wallpaper.

Ceiling 1

Since the mid 1990’s the restoration committee for the Millikin Homestead has engaged my studio in a variety of decorative projects: a recreation of the dining room ceiling mural, decorative painting in two ground floor parlors and an upstairs master bedroom. In 2012 the central hallway ceilings were recreated. Most of this is done in the Chicago studio on canvas in artists’ oils and applied on site like wallpaper.

Thomas Melvin was part of the team of conservators restoring with Keim Mineral colors the then badly deteriorated 1926 work of Atilio Pusterla.

Image is of the central nave of Holy Trinity Cathedral. Louis Sullivan 1903. Now a landmark, the interior stenciling and gold leaf work were restored in 1993.