Any Fin Damien can do: The famous artist has put some of his works up for auction so we recreated them - for a little bit less...

The Immaculate Heart - Lost

But at just £1.53 this beast is a bargain whatever you do with it.

Hours of internet trawling turned up the perfect dagger, which cost £12 from a site devoted to Pagan paraphernalia.

It is now illegal to sell barbed wire in the UK so we fashioned our own artistic interpretation from a ball of wire costing £3.69.

Neo Mycin Sulfate

Easy-peasy. If you've already got the paints (we bought some for £19.95) the most expensive item by for this masterpiece is 95p for the sheet of white paper to paint on.

In the most mind-numbing of our Hirst-linked exercises to date, we were seeing spots before our eyes as we started to colour in the dots, going back to our childhoods and trying not to go outside the lines.

But we soon gave up trying to draw perfect freehand circles and bought a stencil, reduced from to £2.95 to £1.95.

St Anthony's Fire

Believe it or not we couldn't find any skeletons in the Daily Mail cupboards, so we bought one for £19.95 from a specialist prop shop in Essex.

Layer upon layer of lurid paint (£19.95) helped to perk him up but it was the light mist of £7.99 gloss spray that really put the glow to his cheeks.

The Kingdom

The first challenge to get out teeth into - where to find a shark in London?

Then someone suggested a taxidermist. Just £400 later, we had a very large stuffed creature on our hands and nothing to put it in.

A surf through a number of fish-keeping websites took us to a 6ft-long blue glass box, ideal for Sydney - as we now affectionately called him.

It then took two men and a lorry to transport this heavy glass case to our studio, but we were £150 lighter for it.

Midas And The Invite

Our local Rymans doesn't sell gold leaf, but it does do a mean gold card - for £1.49.

The diamante came from a £9.99 Marks & Spencer bracelet found in the Femail fashion cupboard.

Then, we hacked away heartlessly at our fake butterflies (£6.99 for six from a specialist ribbon and trimming store) until they were to scale.

Out came the acrylic paints (£19.95) and our fluttery friends were transformed in no time before being stuck on with a bit of white tack from the depths of a drawer.

After The Flood

Killing a dove in the name of journalism, let alone art, raises serious ethical questions, so we sought out a long-dead one at a taxidermist's instead.

Costing just £85, its wings were already up, so it only needed suspending from the ceiling with thin thread.

A quick trip to Hyde Park provided the necessary twig - free of charge - which was inserted in its beak.

Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor Head

We found this light-weight cranium skulking in the Halloween section of a party shop.

It was ours for only £4.99 but looked a million dollars after we smothered it with black and white acrylic paint - £2.75 a tube - which we mixed with £7.95 gloss gel.

A £7.99 high gloss spray created the finishing touch.

Death Wish

This one sorted the men from the boys.

We thought we'd have to sit smoking cigarette after cigarette outside the studio in the name of art, but then we kept catching the office's secret smokers sneaking out for a quick one.

Instead of being disgusted, we quickly purloined their remnants for our piece de resistance.

Intrigued passers-by also offered us their used ciggies. We then applied Spray Mount - £2.99 a can - to a piece of 50p white card and tipped the ashtray over it.