Since I mentioned the messy state of my clothes at the end of a day's clay modelling.....here's a picture of the clothes laid out today, just before I started to hose the clay off. It's a genteel life, being an artist. Trousers and shoes are (originally) black :^( I gave up wearing an apron years ago, it actually makes matters worse. BTW, I'm NOT 4ft 8ins tall and 4ft 6ins wide, that's just the camera angle lol

lol. had no idea clay modelling could be that messy. when are we gonna see some pictures of your work? :)

So Pog, are you like standing there starkers entertaining the neighbors while you're hosing off,lol?

You ought to look around and invest in some of those Tyvek painter's suits. It should be possible to buy a box of 'em. It'll keep the mess off of you. I believe they're intended to be disposable, but you should be able to keep re-using them until the material wears out.

Love the feel of clay on my face! Nah..pretty lousy at it..just dabble in it once in a while.. have a friend who doe sit professionally. It's is a remarkable thing..making stuff out of clay. Pix of your work? What do u specialize in?

Hmmm...were you standing there naked when you took the pic?

Poor Ed never knew what hit him...just POOF, gone...the only thing left was his clothes. good thing you hose them off before throwing them in the wash :D

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**they're intended to be disposable,** hmmmnnnnn there's a shop round the corner from studio with every conceivable type of workclothes (chef's, safety, uniforms etc. etc.), I must have a look at how much they cost. A problem is that I start the day with 5 or 6 layers on, and gradually discard layers as I heat up. Even on coldest day I finish up in t-shirt and trousers. Even the socks come off! Wonder if those painter's suits are very hot? Worth a try. I was thinking of the scene in Oh Brother Where Art Thou when I arranged the clothes. The studios are attached to a scheme for local (inner city) youngsters (they do basic things like woodwork, cooking, 'life'skills' etc.), who all came out and asked if it was something to do with art. Ackshelly they're very knowleadgable about 'art', because there's always a community-based artist in the area. They know that art doesn't have to be painting/sculpture etc. A huge thing that they're involved with every year is a thing called Bloomers Day. Bloomsday is celebrated elsewhere in Dublin on 16th June, connected to James Joyce's Ullyses. But the area the studio is in is 'Monto' which was the red-light district that featured in Ullyses. So the locals have their rival 'Bloomersday', which involves outdoor plays and general fun. Another thing they did, working with an artist (this was really beautiful)...disastrous high-rise flats were being pulled down, and the artist concentrated on the pigeon club there, produced a book about it in collaboration with the locals, and in the month before the towers actually came down the locals each wrote a tiny (anonymous) message about what their hopes were for the future, put them in the legbands of the pigeons, and all the pigeons were released together. As they came back the messages were retrieved and made into a large collage for the book. They make very poignant reading - a lot of it is about being able to stay off drugs, naturally. The council is trying to keep the community together, not to fragment it as happened when they were first moved out of the tenements to the high-rises, back in the 'fifties. *complete tangent*