Voyageurs logo greets teams at Bold Centre

Eddy Rocks and the Portage College Voyageurs team logo now greet the home team and

visitors walking down the dressing room hallway at Lac La Biche’s Bold Centre.

The four-foot-tall logo was painted onto the hallway wall this week by Plamondon-area

artist Melanie Braund. The Portage College Voyageurs’ logo features a large V-shape split by

the college’s rugged and bearded mascot Eddy Rocks steering a canoe through churning

waters. The painting project took four days to complete, and involved sanding down the area,

projecting the logo onto the wall, tracing the outline, and taping and re-taping areas as two

coats of paint were applied.

“There’s a lot that goes into this, and I think it turned out really well,” said Braund, an artist

of many talents including painting, photography, clay sculpting and metal work.

So how does Eddy keep that fresh and bright skin-tone under his brilliant red shirt without

too much glare from the harsh hallway lights? Glad you asked.

While Braund uses her expert skills as an artist, and a grey undertone beneath the two

coats of red paint to make it really stand out, the paint itself also helps to make the logo colours

pop.

“It’s a floor paint with an enamel surface. I’m really pleased with how it came out. I really

love the whole design,” says Braund, who painted the Lac La Biche

Clippers minor hockey association logo onto the opposite wall of the hallway last year.

Her company, Melanie Braund Fine Art has created other artistic features in and around the

community, including a 30-foot tall, metallic feather and smaller components she cut and

welded for an installation to commemorate the opening of the Bold

Centre more than a decade ago.

Home Opener

The first Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference visiting team to walk past the new logo will

be the Augustana Vikings when they play the Voyageurs in the regular season home opener

on Friday October 17.