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Professional Archive: Projects, Research, and Artistic Practice by Portia “Po” Chapman, Kingston Artist

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Portia "Po" Chapman, Kingston Artist, at her Kingston Art Studio desk reviewing colour palettes, surrounded by painted rawhide drums and nature-focused illustrations for her Research & Project Archive.
Portia “Po” Chapman in her Kingston Art Studio, documenting the intersection visual arts research, nature-focused colour-blocking, and professional project execution.

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Drum December Day 9 | Trimming the Drum Frame to Size

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Kingston Artist Po pointing to the trim line. The white oak steam-bent drum frame sits on the chop saw awaiting the first trim.
Po trims the white oak to the desired drum frame size at her Kingston Art Studio

Kingston Artist, Portia “Po” Chapman trims the white oak drum frame to size at her studio.

On day 8, my trusty assistant compressed the dry bent oak to the size that I wanted for the finished drum to become. As he held it in place, I marked the board with a pencil. Day 9, also marks the mid stage of drum frame creation.

Once we cut off the white oak at yesterday’s pencil markings, we will see the drum frame coming into its drum shape for the first time. I have a smaller trim miter saw, but I prefer using my 12″ chop saw with a trimming tooth blade installed. The larger blade alleviates the fiddliness of cutting the large hoop with a small blade.


Oh, and this trim will remove the breakage that we found on day 6. Phew!

Come back tomorrow, Day 10, when we move on to our next stage of drum frame creation: gluing and dry-bending. The next couple days are going to be exciting; we are on the homeward stretch now.

Come back tomorrow for Day 10 – when we apply the glue. There are 4 types of glue that we can use, I will explain the options on Day 10.

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See you tomorrow!

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