Junkie Monkey

This evening I got the urge to make a quick monkey marionette out of stuff from my junk box, to be finished tomorrow evening.  This will give us something to play with when trying out ideas for the puppetry sequence in Baba Shakespeare.  Even when making a puppet out of these kind of materials, care still needs to be taken over the way the joints are made, so that it moves as realistically as possible.  The beads inside are not to show what this monkey has been eating for dinner (they may look like nuts but in fact they are wooden beads!) but to add weight to the body so that it has a similar feel to a wooden marionette.  She looks a bit glum but will probably cheer up when she gets her paws :o)  For now she's just chilling out sitting in my basket of beads.