"Masterpiece" Seriously? Heh!

"StuffyMarx;c-18171297" wrote:
And here I thought gardening was the lucrative skill...
You can pull in big bucks in gardening with roses. Granted, it takes a while to get them to "perfect", but once you do, each bloom is worth 80 bucks, and you get four per plant.
You can go (day by day) from one plant, to five, to nine, then twenty-nine, then fifty-five plants and the first week isn't even over. 55 x $80 every couple of days is living on easy street. Roses seem to only flower every 2 days, that's why the numbers are a bit wacky.
I suppose the disadvantage is that they only bloom in Autumn, so you only have a short window to rake in lots of cash.

Having read some of the comments above though, I should probably compost the roses and buy a digital sketchpad and an easel.

Painting is the best way to get rich quick. You can spam out a lot of paintings in a single day. Once you get your painter above level 5 excellent paintings routinely pay over 1-2K. When they reach max skill it's easily 2-8K for an excellent painting, masterpieces can go for 7-20K a piece. On average a masterpiece is usually good for 4-8K easy peasy. The style of painting matters, landscapes and classics pay the best. Impressionism and abstracts can fetch big money now and then but tend to be on the lower end of the scale. If you figure that your sim can do 10 or more paintings a day you will have that McMansion before you know it.