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Put yourself on the map.

Manhattan, cut into 17,286 plots. Claim one, paint it, and watch the island fill in.

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0 of 17,286 plots painted A simulation after opening.
A few blocks, up close. Every square is one plot, painted by one person. Aerial imagery © City of New York, CC BY 4.0.

Every acre is a canvas.

The whole island is laid out as a grid of plots, each roughly an acre of real Manhattan. Every plot holds a 32 × 32 picture, and whoever paints it owns it.

Draw, publish, grow.

No downloads. No purchases. Your art.

  1. 1Claim

    Choose any available canvas. Your first is free.

  2. 2Paint

    32 × 32 pixels and 249 colors. Keep up to five drafts, publish one on the map.

  3. 3Grow

    Share with friends, gain likes, earn PXL and grow your portfolio.

  4. 4Combine

    Own plots that touch? Combine them into a bigger canvas for detailed drawings.

Nobody can paint over you.

On other open canvases, whatever you make gets erased by whoever arrives next. Here, a plot you claim is yours, and only you can paint it.

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