If You Like Hand Made Mechanical Toys,

this is the video for you,

they are the work of artist Penny Thomson who in her Derbyshire studio with her daughter Briony, works with papier-mâché, which she began experimenting with when her children were still young. “Using pulp, laminated and household waste paper, and cardboard, I made a seven-foot giraffe and conducted a workshop in my son’s school, which involved all the pupils in making a 14-foot Diplodocus,” she says, after creating a diorama for illusionist Sam Drake’s House of Magic, she became fascinated with automata and combined skills she acquired over her career to develop the mechanical miniatures. Briony adds, “That is why we say that a batch of two or three kinetic sculptures usually take between one week and 40 years to make!” Each miniature figure incorporates a mechanism with a small handle that sets it in motion, giving life to hungry chicks, impatient zebras, and joyous penguins, Thomson regularly releases small batches of sculptures in her Etsy shop, and you can see her new work on Instagram, and on her website, they seem so simple, but having looked at the video again they seem so realistic, amazing!