Tell me about your Art Collecting sim

I don't have a true art collecting singular sim but a few of my sims do collect the posters but one collects paintings from romance festival. If there's a painting I haven't seen in the game before that's being sold at the romance festival I have one Sim in particular who buys those. She's also a serial romantic and this is her main motivation for collecting strictly from that festival. I then forget to hang them and she more often gifts these paintings to her various partners. So there's no rhyme or reason or artist theme... they're more sentimental in nature as a collection.

I think because I rarely have walls up I've never really considered an art collecting sim. I also dislike huge homes but I do like this idea of perhaps trying to collect a small theme of paintings

I don't have any art collector sim. When I decorate their houses they usually get the standard BB catalogue paintings on their walls. I do have quite a number of painting selling stands in my game and my sims tend to buy some paintings they come across and I like. I used to have an art peddling sim that lived in the arts center a few days and collected all the paintings from there and then sold them on a sales table. It was just quick money not really an habitual occupation. I tried to save some of my painter sims masterpieces but they end up selling them because they need the money. They also don't have enough space to display them.

"wahini2024;c-18102002" wrote:
I don't have a true art collecting singular sim but a few of my sims do collect the posters but one collects paintings from romance festival. If there's a painting I haven't seen in the game before that's being sold at the romance festival I have one Sim in particular who buys those. She's also a serial romantic and this is her main motivation for collecting strictly from that festival. I then forget to hang them and she more often gifts these paintings to her various partners. So there's no rhyme or reason or artist theme... they're more sentimental in nature as a collection.

I think because I rarely have walls up I've never really considered an art collecting sim. I also dislike huge homes but I do like this idea of perhaps trying to collect a small theme of paintings

Oh, are there unique paintings available at the romance festival? I hardly ever visited that festival, but if it offer unique items I'll definitely pay it a visit! :)

"crocobaura;c-18102005" wrote:
I don't have any art collector sim. When I decorate their houses they usually get the standard BB catalogue paintings on their walls. I do have quite a number of painting selling stands in my game and my sims tend to buy some paintings they come across and I like. I used to have an art peddling sim that lived in the arts center a few days and collected all the paintings from there and then sold them on a sales table. It was just quick money not really an habitual occupation. I tried to save some of my painter sims masterpieces but they end up selling them because they need the money. They also don't have enough space to display them.

That's a good idea adding more painting selling stands - do they work on owned community lots too, or only on certain lot categories? One of my sims runs a gallery and a sales stand might make sense at the entrance.

@Simmerville no I don't think there are any special paintings that can only be done at romance festival but it is more often than not that I find paintings I've never seen my own sims paint. Some can carry a romantic aura if a flirty painting was created during the festival (most of which I've seen) but given her story line she buys them in a more sentimental way and I try to buy the paintings that I rarely or never see. The art center in Myshuno can have paintings on easels I've never seen but I can't buy them so the romance festival is where I purchase them as a semi collector ...I actually can't think of where I could buy them in world unless I had a sim who owned a retail gallery


If I'm playing as this Sim I'm always aware of when this festival is happening as she's also a spell caster, mad scientist... so she can "match make" while there. She'll often also pick roses there and plant them at her partners homes and graft a money tree branch to it because she's...her. otherwise I don't take my other sims that often

"Simmerville;c-18102030" wrote:

"wahini2024;c-18102002" wrote:
I don't have a true art collecting singular sim but a few of my sims do collect the posters but one collects paintings from romance festival. If there's a painting I haven't seen in the game before that's being sold at the romance festival I have one Sim in particular who buys those. She's also a serial romantic and this is her main motivation for collecting strictly from that festival. I then forget to hang them and she more often gifts these paintings to her various partners. So there's no rhyme or reason or artist theme... they're more sentimental in nature as a collection.

I think because I rarely have walls up I've never really considered an art collecting sim. I also dislike huge homes but I do like this idea of perhaps trying to collect a small theme of paintings

Oh, are there unique paintings available at the romance festival? I hardly ever visited that festival, but if it offer unique items I'll definitely pay it a visit! :)

"crocobaura;c-18102005" wrote:
I don't have any art collector sim. When I decorate their houses they usually get the standard BB catalogue paintings on their walls. I do have quite a number of painting selling stands in my game and my sims tend to buy some paintings they come across and I like. I used to have an art peddling sim that lived in the arts center a few days and collected all the paintings from there and then sold them on a sales table. It was just quick money not really an habitual occupation. I tried to save some of my painter sims masterpieces but they end up selling them because they need the money. They also don't have enough space to display them.

That's a good idea adding more painting selling stands - do they work on owned community lots too, or only on certain lot categories? One of my sims runs a gallery and a sales stand might make sense at the entrance.

They work on both owned and unowned community lots. I like to use them on community spaces and art gallery as the sims display their art autonomously and I like the surprise and not knowing what I am going to find as it makes it more like a real shopping experience.

I don't think collecting them as investments would work with TS4, unless you keep them in storage (household inventory, storage chest/box, or sim inventory), due to the degradation in value in Live Mode.

That said, I've had a wealthy vampire author who decorates his estate with his and his wife's paintings (it's a side-hobby of his). She, as well, is not only an artist, but a catburglar who steals statues, figures, and paintings from the homes of others in order to satisfy her kleptomania (which I suppose does involve a lot of traveling). In order to make use of her..."urges", she puts them in a privately-owned museum where others can visit (effectively hiding her collection in plain sight). Before putting them in public, however, she'll repaint the objects (change the swatch) if possible, just in case the owners happen to be some of her patrons. To add to the winding road that is my story here, she's also a Supreme Court judge (having graduated from law school and excelled in her job as a lawyer).

I could continue her story, if you're interested in any part I haven't mentioned.