So tax season is finally over and I finally have something vaguely resembling free time. So, with that in mind, I have gift! Additional information, previews, and download below.

This default replacement contains over 1400 different images. Sims 3 easel paintings have a sort of general category as well as several trait-specific categories. Here’s some previews to give you a general sense of each.

General | A well-rounded mishmash.

Gloomy | Desaturated and somber.

Computer Whiz | All things geeky. Comics and fanart and space and stuff.

Insane | Bright colors, fractured compositions. I wasn’t sure how to best approach this category so I took inspiration from the paintings of Louis Wain.

Evil | Ranges from cute and creepy to 19th and 18th century prints of devils and demons.

Genius | Mostly non-representational contemporary and modern art.

Artistic | Whimsical and elegant I suppose

Neurotic | A hodge podge of scientific illustration and other works

Virtuoso | Mostly representational painting from the 17th - 19th century.

Can’t Stand Art | This is the only category I did not replace. As you can see, EA’s originals are sufficiently horrible.

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This replacement also increases the image quality for both small and medium sized easel paintings. Goodbye pixelated crunchiness! I did not increase the quality for the large canvases because that would make the file size for this replacement even more monstrous than it already is.

I did my best to select a wide variety of artists depicting a wide variety of subjects for this. I even included some of my own work. While I concluded that creating some sort of attribution chart would be way too time consuming, I encourage you to shoot me an ask if you come across a painting you like. I will be happy to hunt down the artist for you.

Download (Watch out! This sucker is 145 MB)

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Many thanks to Plum for her wonderful tutorial.