The paintings in the slideshow below are by the artist Michael Craig-Martin. They are from a series call Seven Deadly Sins. Click through them and look at how he has overlaid the letters on top of each other and used really bright colours. Can you see what the words are? It’s kind of hard to read them.

He has also painted some everyday objects over the letters like chairs and umbrellas. What else can you see?

Write down as many emotion words as you can think of. Cut these up, put them in a bag and pick one out. Here are some ideas for emotions or feelings:

Love, envy, shame, rage, greed, boredom, joy, jealousy, hope...

(Can you think of any more?)

Plan and draw your designs.

And there you go! You have a fantastic (and very cool) statement bag!

The lovely Year 7 textile class at Esher Church of England High School in Surrey, were kind enough to be the first to try out this activity. Have a look at some of their amazing creations in the slideshow above.