TRAVEL | Art by Ryan Rankin

Travel Art

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

This is from my wife and I's honeymoon in April of 2019. We traveled all over Jamaica and this is one of the sketches illustrating the local culture and people.

Pterois is a genus of venomous marine fish, commonly known as lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific. Also called zebrafish, firefish, turkeyfish, tastyfish or butterfly-cod, it is characterized by conspicuous warning coloration with red, white, creamy, or black bands, showy pectoral fins, and venomous spiky fin rays

The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum, is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.