Arts Academy and Pettonta Castle

I planned to tell you about the Arts Academy. In town of Galucca, there will be some sort of an artists school, with equipped studios for painting artists, sculptors and probably photographers... not decided all details quite yet. There will also be exhibition rooms, where local artists can bring their work to display (hoping that is still possible in game, technically).

Anyways, Galucca Arts Academy was founded at this time (= 150 years ago). The two founders were just settled in Old Town, next to the old market.

The build is of course tiny at this stage. This is where the artists live and work. The tiny exhibition in the hall is not really public yet, but consists of their previous works from another town.

The main room is the atelier where they work when not being out on location. The guy at the easel is Cluedo van Hutch, he specializes in painting from local busy spots such as the market. The blond guy is Andrew Portoille, he focuses more on portraying locals (mostly those who can pay, of course). The atelier already contains a few requisites he will use to create variety.

Ah... isn't Cluedo a real talent? The horse that Mr. Jonathan Pettonta is riding on the painting, looks extraordinarily 3D, don't you think? (it actually happened!) The richest family, Pettonta, has ordered a few works from the Market in old town, so now both Cluedo and Andrew spent a few days there. Generally most of their paintings are trashed - too often creativity makes it impossible to see what they actually painted, not suitable for historical paintings that will hang in a future Historical Museum.

Many more families were moved into temporary houses, and they are rushed through marriages and births. The only furniture in most homes these days is a double bed :-) . They all get engaged and married through game play (just maxing their relation level to save time), but no wedding parties, sorry!

On the picture above Aurora Heisserclump is marrying to Hupert Wooming. (I love the Heisserclump name! Hoping nobody in real world is named that). They both are of decent families, and Hupert founded a science facility near the Gal River bridge, not far from where they live. They now have 3 kids. I use a huge spreadsheet to keep track on who to age up etc, and I use a dice to decide when each couple should have more kids or not.

The Pettonta Castle is far from ready, but the first story floor plan is done, and the Pettonta family has more or less moved in, leaving their old town lot to a future townhall. I think the Disney roof must go, and maybe less pure white walls, too. Will need to tweak it a little.

In the next update you will meet the settlers and the current noble Pettonta family - stay tuned! :-)