Crazy Ancient Script Mural

Hello today Steemians! I hope your day is going well, and the new year is treating you nicely. Already I feel a sort of lighter energy.

I have been staying in town at my moms for a little while, and today I went to paint with my neighbor Tim at Kelowna Escape Games and Virtual Reality. I got my camera charger finally so I now have photo-taking ability at all times, thank goodness!

I missed a couple weeks of painting so he is onto the next room. Last time I was there I was working on the shadows of the bricks in the Game of Thrones room using a dry brush technique he taught me, he finished the rest well I was away, what a lot of work! The finished product looks good, here is a shot of the finished product:

I also snagged a sneak-peak photo of the throne room in this escape-room-puzzle. 

Basically the escape room is a new sorta fad around here where you have to solve a puzzle that is built into these rooms in order to "escape" (though you aren't actually locked in). I haven't played myself, but maybe in the future? They also offer virtual reality experiences here, which I will have to try soon before this job is over!

Today was a quiet day, my task sort of more complicated then the last, but still quite simple. Tim was working on what looks like a mad scientists lab next door to the room I was working in (though they are part of the same puzzle). He started on my room, this is an example of his work and I was trying to mimic it a bit. 

The room I was in seems like a kids room but for someone who went crazy. My task was to write "creepy scripts" all over the walls, but with "good messages." Tim gave me a notebook full of random letters and words from all sorts of different languages, from cuneiform to Arabic to Nordic runes. It was super fun!

I am writing 'Love yourself' in ancient runes. 

 The star looking thing also means god, and that is what I wrote in cuneiform as well. Cuneiform is probably the oldest written language, originally made by pressing wedges into wet clay, and so consists of mostly lines and triangles. It was developed and used in ancient Mesopotamia. It was one of the highlights of today, it doesn't seem all that exciting but to a history obsessed person like myself it was really rad! 

I also got to try some ancient Sanskrit, I am pretty sure this is just a bunch of random sounds so I sure hope that nobody knows what it means lol, as with many things in this room, its pretty damn random. It fits with the crazy theme though, if someone can read it, they will think that whoever wrote it is raving mad!

This one reads 'mind over matter' and then below that 'psychic powers' however I messed up spelling psychic and spelt it like physcic. Lol. It sorta feels like I can read it though! It is interesting to see how some of the letters are similar to the English alphabet, throughout many of the languages I wrote today!

The finished product! The spooky guy is Tims creation. I sure had a lot of fun with this project and task, if I go tomorrow I will probably get to make it look like splattered blood everywhere, which has to be pretty fun. I am learning a lot by just painting on walls haha, the experience and practice gives confidence! I am slowly gaining mural-creating skills!

Thanks for joining me today Steemit! I will finally have my next ancient history blog up soon on Babylonian Kingship, an intense subject, so stay tuned and have a lovely life <3 Peace for you all!