Illustrator :: Draw Inside - Clipping Masks And Live Paint

Jan 26, 2014

I made a drawing of a stone floor excavation and I used 'draw inside' to delimit the excavation borders as below:

and this is what it looks like with edit contents selected:

I also wanted to carry on drawing in 'Live paint' mode to 'colour in' sections (the above is just a small section of a much larger drawing), but because 'draw inside' creates a clipping mask, this object is now incompatible with the 'Live paint' paradigm! So I thought I would 'expand appearance' to continue and this is what I get:
 
My question is, is there a way for me to successfully translate a 'draw inside' object to a 'Live paint group'? The above objects are just simple shapes with a single fill & stroke.

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