Hat Plays Sims

Having used oil paints as well as water colors, ink- including various printing processes that left me with opera glove coverage stains of linseed black- and pastels and charcoal and about everything but jewelry making and throwing pots (I mentioned I was a 2-D gal) I can attest to the ease of oil versus water color.
Tempera was still common in the Renaissance. It was the growth of wealth of the middle class, the spread of knowledge via printing press and the trade brought by crusades, other factors like that biggie the population restructure called Plague giving rise to humanism and therefore revived interest in Hellenistic art and the lost technique of honest-to-Plato real 2 point perspective ....

I love high Middle Ages stuff too - and the Germanic and Nordic traditions of stylized human figures that becomes today's generic 'Celtic knot work' . Heck, I thought Etruscan sculpture prettier that the Roman knockoffs of late Greek- and the forgeries market of Greek copies in Ancient Rome is hilarious stuff...



I'm writing up my master list of crazy right now. Balancing all my knowledge of history behind breeds ( come from a dog breeding family with lots of research material on dog breeds, scientific studies on domestication of dogs and health and DNA studies......) plus personal preference.

Cat breeds are new creations by virtue of limited controlled breeding after domestication -unlike dogs, cats naturally filled all of what the job humans required of them once we got pass that whole cohabit with humans instead of wild animal stage - aka kill the rats in our granaries and we will call you kitty. Only in the last few centuries with the rise of appearance based companion animals have we seem the profusion of cat breeds. And still there is only a few various on head and body shape, a small range of sizes, some mutations in coat texture humans have heavily bred to - and of course coat colors.
My game decision was limited to decide that both sides of the ocean could have cats by allowing the urban elves in Elf Garden of Eden could have kitties- and the humans way on the other side who never contacted first group could, thanks to an imaginary Egypt analogue, get cats too. But they had to be distinct, uphold story logic characteristics - ie long haired kitties only after an extended period of cat owners living in inland Viking expies- and one sub group of elves I decided wouldn't have any cats until in contact with immigrants of the other groups. But that's the group with small terriers. And possibly pet ferrets. The Greeks had weasels as the niche filler for cats until the felines were brought in as the better alternative. Because felines as strict carnivores stuck to the varmints they were brought in to kill and left food like fruits and the chicken eggs alone. ^.~

Once my perfect tunics are done I'm taking the maxis suit of armor and stealing pieces off it.