My painting sim added a bunch of paintings she created to walls of a community lot.When playing other households, they can visit the exhibition and buy a painting. The money is correctly drawn from their cash balance.I checked whether the artist was earning the same amount, but no - her cash balance is unchanged.It's been very long since the exhibition opened, but the game still knows who has the ownership to the works. Although the artist moved out from her parents house, her mother could visit the exhibition and could still grab the works for free. She could not buy them. So, if the paintings are connected to the household rather than the artist, I don't understand why the household's cash balance is not affected when other sims buy the paintings.Is there a way that the painting artist can actually be paid for selling works through a "gallery"? I know we have the street sale object, but as long as the other sims can still buy her works from the gallery wall (without the use of the street sale wall object) I don't understand how this opportunity to run a business was neglected on the artist's side.I solve it by adding the money manually to her cash balance, but I wish this could be designed a bit smarter...How would you solve it?

Who owns the gallery? I think they should receive money in their account for everything they sell when they next visit the lot.

If you have Nifty Knitting you can sell paintings on Plopsy. That's what I do with my artists and photographers. It's not the same as doing it your way but your sim can make money. Maybe you could have the exhibition and then sell on Plopsy. You could pretend other sims saw your sim's work and decided to reach out to buy?

"Simmerville;d-1007548" wrote:My painting sim added a bunch of paintings she created to walls of a community lot.When playing other households, they can visit the exhibition and buy a painting. The money is correctly drawn from their cash balance.I checked whether the artist was earning the same amount, but no - her cash balance is unchanged.It's been very long since the exhibition opened, but the game still knows who has the ownership to the works. Although the artist moved out from her parents house, her mother could visit the exhibition and could still grab the works for free. She could not buy them. So, if the paintings are connected to the household rather than the artist, I don't understand why the household's cash balance is not affected when other sims buy the paintings.Is there a way that the painting artist can actually be paid for selling works through a "gallery"? I know we have the street sale object, but as long as the other sims can still buy her works from the gallery wall (without the use of the street sale wall object) I don't understand how this opportunity to run a business was neglected on the artist's side.I solve it by adding the money manually to her cash balance, but I wish this could be designed a bit smarter...How would you solve it? I wonder! Cheat money, buy that lot, now you own it right? So you should get the money. Just a thought I don't know for sure it will work.

I didn't think about the retail option. Make a retail lot and have your sim buy it and sell painting there. Make it it look like an art gallery.

"SweetieWright_84;c-18248215" wrote:If you have Nifty Knitting you can sell paintings on Plopsy. That's what I do with my artists and photographers. It's not the same as doing it your way but your sim can make money. Maybe you could have the exhibition and then sell on Plopsy. You could pretend other sims saw your sim's work and decided to reach out to buy? Yea, I like Plopsy, but some paintings I'd like other sims to have in their homes. Selling them on Plopsy they get deleted, I think.

Selling paintings - how to organize it?

crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
Who owns the gallery? I think they should receive money in their account for everything they sell when they next visit the lot.
SweetieWright_84
New Spectator
2 years ago
If you have Nifty Knitting you can sell paintings on Plopsy. That's what I do with my artists and photographers. It's not the same as doing it your way but your sim can make money. Maybe you could have the exhibition and then sell on Plopsy. You could pretend other sims saw your sim's work and decided to reach out to buy?
Behappy1st
Seasoned Newcomer
2 years ago
"Simmerville;d-1007548" wrote:
My painting sim added a bunch of paintings she created to walls of a community lot.
When playing other households, they can visit the exhibition and buy a painting. The money is correctly drawn from their cash balance.
I checked whether the artist was earning the same amount, but no - her cash balance is unchanged.
It's been very long since the exhibition opened, but the game still knows who has the ownership to the works. Although the artist moved out from her parents house, her mother could visit the exhibition and could still grab the works for free. She could not buy them. So, if the paintings are connected to the household rather than the artist, I don't understand why the household's cash balance is not affected when other sims buy the paintings.

Is there a way that the painting artist can actually be paid for selling works through a "gallery"? I know we have the street sale object, but as long as the other sims can still buy her works from the gallery wall (without the use of the street sale wall object) I don't understand how this opportunity to run a business was neglected on the artist's side.

I solve it by adding the money manually to her cash balance, but I wish this could be designed a bit smarter...

How would you solve it?

I wonder! Cheat money, buy that lot, now you own it right? So you should get the money. Just a thought I don't know for sure it will work.
SweetieWright_84
New Spectator
2 years ago
I didn't think about the retail option. Make a retail lot and have your sim buy it and sell painting there. Make it it look like an art gallery.
Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
"SweetieWright_84;c-18248215" wrote:
If you have Nifty Knitting you can sell paintings on Plopsy. That's what I do with my artists and photographers. It's not the same as doing it your way but your sim can make money. Maybe you could have the exhibition and then sell on Plopsy. You could pretend other sims saw your sim's work and decided to reach out to buy?

Yea, I like Plopsy, but some paintings I'd like other sims to have in their homes. Selling them on Plopsy they get deleted, I think.
JoRN1414
2 years ago
Yea, I like Plopsy, but some paintings I'd like other sims to have in their homes. Selling them on Plopsy they get deleted, I think.

I wonder if the Sim themselves have to own a business that you can put their exhibition in. Like a retail store. Interesting thread, I never thought of doing this. I guess if you wanted you could have them 'gift' the painting, but that wouldn't get them cash.
mightyspritesims
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
Since you have City Living, how about the portable art gallery object? You tend it like a sales table.
Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
I like the gallery to be an event place, the changing exhibitions to be an activity all houses can access if they like to. I see this can be done even if it is a retail lot, or if the lot is owned by one sim, as long as it is a community lot. I have a gallery owned and run by a sim in another hood, but that mainly sells game painting objects and other deco. Seems like all options (except retail) might require money cheats. Well, as I plan to have several artists showing off their work, there must be some money cheat between artist/gallery owner anyway, but I can handle that as long as I find a routine.

Enjoying reading suggestions! It's interesting that the selling point can be done in multiple ways. The exhib. event side can probably e dealt with in several ways, too. Painting from reference is harder to sell/delete than he default motifs.
Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
"mightysprite;c-18248281" wrote:
Since you have City Living, how about the portable art gallery object? You tend it like a sales table.

Yup, it's an option. But I prefer the gallery to be a bit more posh than that. Vernissage with champagne and speeches seems a bit odd when using the street sale objects ;)
amapola76
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
If you don't have an owner for the gallery, do you have a sim who is, in your head canon, the manager/curator/director of the gallery? If so, you could have your artists gift their paintings to that sim, and in exchange, the director could gift them with simoleans. Then any funds that come from the paintings when they are sold at the gallery could go back into either upgrades for the gallery, or donated to one of the online charities related to the arts.

This is similar to what I do with Mortimer Goth and his bookstore. All of my writer sims gift extra copies of their novels to him, he gives them simoleans in return, and then he sells the copies at the bookstore. It works reasonably well, or at least it would if we could give more than one gift at a time.

So far, most of my artists either have their own gallery, or are trying to save up for one. But I have thought about using the same system to have one of my art critic sims buy a gallery and sell paintings from different sims.