So it was my idea for this next painting to take something as familiar to us all as their own face, a TV screen, or their front door and make it into something new. We all are familiar with the map of the world, but can it be displayed classically as a landscape or portrait? Can something so uninteresting be made personal and into a painting that can induce people to take a second or third look?

So let's see what we can do? Maybe we can make something that we could hang in a lounge at an international airport or behind the reception desk at a software company.

Bear in mind this needs imagination as ultimately such a subject is a projection of an imagined and unreal topography to begin with. We must start with a rectangular flat canvas and since we know the world really has no edges nor any is it flat we will start at a disadvantage. We will hope to overcome such setbacks with some convincing footwork.

This needs a large canvas and some time consuming work on drawing a map of the world. First we find a suitable map. I used the one shown below.

We grid our map of the world. Shown below in part ( Fig.2 detail of Africa).

Fig. 2 Detail of grided map	Fig. 3 Detail as transferred to our large canvas

Next we paint our primed canvas with a mix of dark blue/white spirit/polyurethane. When dry we draw the same grid on our canvas only much larger. I used white chalk for the grid as it is easily rubbed away, and charcoal for the map outline. Transfer the map with charcoal. We get something like the detail shown in Fig. 3 above.