For the last several days, I’ve been working on the map at the Bluewater Cafe in downtown Grand Marais. In 1991, wallpaper was stripped off the wall revealing a map of Lake Superior that had been painted back in the 1950’s. It was a freehand map, and definitely not one to be used for navigational purposes! In fact, if the shape hadn’t been labeled “Lake Superior” one might not have any clue as to what it was. So the owners asked me to re-do it. In the years that followed, a pipe or two broke behind the wall, causing damage to the plaster. I returned along with a student I was mentoring, and we did some more painting to cover the damaged area. Over the last few days, I’ve cleaned the wall, patched areas with joint compound, painted out the background to the original base color, and have repainted the whole mural. The photo on this post shows what the map looked like before starting this latest incarnation of the Bluewater Map.

For the last several days, I’ve been working on the map at the Bluewater Cafe in downtown Grand Marais. In 1991, wallpaper was stripped off the wall revealing a map of Lake Superior that had been painted back in the 1950’s. It was a freehand map, and definitely not one to be used for navigational purposes! In fact, if the shape hadn’t been labeled “Lake Superior” one might not have any clue as to what it was. So the owners asked me to re-do it. In the years that followed, a pipe or two broke behind the wall, causing damage to the plaster. I returned along with a student I was mentoring, and we did some more painting to cover the damaged area. Over the last few days, I’ve cleaned the wall, patched areas with joint compound, painted out the background to the original base color, and have repainted the whole mural. The photo on this post shows what the map looked like before starting this latest incarnation of the Bluewater Map.