I've used mostly weird medieval art and a few botanical studies, since a lot of the art we have from the Medieval era are illustrations done by bored and frustrated monks, so I thought it was most fitting to represent those sims who are painting even if they don't want to.

Here is a small sample of the paintings your sims can paint with this default replacement:

As always, credits to Plum for the original default replacement painting mod, framework, and tutorial.

Troubleshooting

Don't see the new artwork? Try these tips:

Make sure you placed the file into Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods\Overrides

Clear your caches including those in the WorldCaches folder

Depending on file names, these may not load if you have other painting defaults. Check out my tutorial on how to mix-and-match and merge multiple default files (coming soon).

Make sure your sim has the Can't Stand Art trait and not any of the other traits that affect paintings: Artistic, Computer Whiz, Evil, Genius, Grumpy, Insane, Neurotic, and Virtuoso

If my memory serves right, since I did the bulk of this years ago, I replaced the entirety of the "basic" trait-free paintings, including brilliant and masterpiece quality. Less complete but still worked on are some of the paintings for traits I find make up my artist sims, such as artistic, grumpy, and genius.

I don't often play evil, computer whiz or Can't Stand Art sims so those categories are definitely edited less.

I have included some screenshots as a sample of the art, although if you open the file in S3PE you can see more clearly what is included.

If you hate EA's paintings and would like ALL 1580 paintings replaced, I would recommend using this alongside other painting replacement mods such as:

Plum's Replacements (massive credit and thanks also for the fabulous tutorial and files, though this is a lot of pop culture/digital art and will look jarring against my choices)

Medieval Knights Default Replacements (this would actually keep in theme better with the art I have included)

You have two options to use mine and another mod at the same time:

(1) Open the other mod first in S3PE. Then import my mod second via Resource > Import > as dbc. Allow all files to be overwritten if prompted.

!!OR!!

(2) In your packages folder, rename my file to have a zz at the beginning or something else that instructs Sims to load it after the other mod. This is easier but will make your packages folder about 50mb bigger than it needs to be, so I recommend the first method.

I made this for myself and am just sharing in case anyone else wants to use these too. It's "good enough" for my purposes for now but if I ever decide to finish this, I'll share it too. Just don't anticipate that happening any time soon or....ever. I worked on this mostly when I was a loner at university with a lot of spare time, and I have a full time job, a house, friends and cats now.

So if you find this and want to finish the other 900 paintings, please be my guest and include this with whatever you make, I don't need credit or anything. Share it with whoever. I don't really care.

Enjoy and let me know if you run into any problems getting this to work or need any advice for your own default replacement mod. :)