My, all these paintings! I think when Carla and Marty's baby ages up I'll select artistic (if I can choose!) I've only played one artistic sim in TS3 and I lost interest in him when I came back from another household to find him married! I had intended him to be the bachelor artist and a bit of a lady's man.
mmm, I probably need a few more residents around town, I might even create someone artistic and move them into the studio house on the coast so I can play them straight away.