Unleash Your Creativity with Your Own Handmade Charcoal Sticks!
Join our 2-hour workshop where you’ll learn to craft your own charcoal drawing sticks! Take home your own charcoal sticks & artwork!
Learn to
>Select and prepare natural twigs
>Bake and transform them into charcoal sticks
>Create beautiful charcoal drawings with your handmade tools

Duration: 2 Hours
Date & Time:
16/4/2026 (Thur) 3-5pm or
18/4/2026 (Sat) 10am-12pm or
24/4/2026 (Fri) 3-5pm or
25/4/2026 (Sat) 2-4pm

Fee: £12 per person (No experience needed)

Materials: Please bring
1. an empty and clean can(~500ml);
2. dried twigs for fill up the can
(but, if you can't find all the materials, we also will have everything ready for you)

Venue: C & G Artpartment, 71 Holme Lane, Sheffield, S6 4JP
Register: email info@CandG-Artpartment.com or our Eventbrite Page

More about the Workshop:

This 2-hour Charcoal Stick Workshop invites participants to reconnect with nature through a simple and meaningful creative process. By transforming dry twigs into handmade charcoal using fire and a metal can, participants will experience the traditional method of charcoal making and understand the relationship between natural materials, heat, and artistic tools.

The workshop emphasises sustainability, slow making, and hands-on learning. Instead of relying on factory-produced materials, participants will create their own drawing tools from natural branches and learn how art materials can come directly from the environment. This process encourages awareness of resource use, patience, and craftsmanship.

Participants will not only produce their own charcoal sticks but also use them to create drawings, experiencing the full journey from raw material to finished artwork. The workshop creates a space for experimentation, creativity, and reflection, making it suitable for beginners, families, artists, and anyone interested in eco-friendly art practices.

Through fire, wood, and drawing, this workshop explores the connection between nature, material, and artistic expression.

About learning and teaching at C & G Artpartment:

In our studio, we teach each student individually according to each's own background and interest. The teacher:students ratio is kept under 1:6. For the intermediate level or above, each student chooses his/her own topics to study. You are welcome to choose subject matters for your drawings/paintings. We would also suggest various themes as well, from simple objects for beginners to more complex still life sets, images from photographs, life drawing etc.

We do demonstrate throughout different steps and encourage to learn through practising.

About mentor Gum CHENG:

Gum was born in Hong Kong. In 1998, Gum completed the social work programme at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He graduated with distinction of Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) in Drawing, at RMIT University in 2002. In 2007, Gum received M.A. in Comparative and Public History from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Gum was a member of School Management Committee. He is a registered social worker, part-time lecturer of HK Art School, founder of C & G Artpartment, Wooferten; core member of a Hong Kong non-profit art group “Project 226”, chairman of Art Together Limited(charity organization). Since 2000, he has curated more than 100 art exhibitions, educational programme, seminars, exchange programme etc. His curatorial directions mainly criticize politics, social issues and art eco-system. His artworks explore various media, like painting, drawing, performance, stop-motion animation, photography, video and installation.

Upon her graduation from Rhodes College (TN, USA) with the Bachelor Degree of Arts in Fine Art and Computer Science in 2002, Clara Cheung received Sally Becker Grinspan Award for Artistic Achievement and Apollonian Award for Art History. She then studied for the Postgraduate Diploma in Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and received a master degree of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University (HK) afterwards. She is currently year PhD candidate in the History of Art Department at University of York. Her research interest is about the art exhibition history of Hong Kong and South-East Asia.

Clara has over 10 years of experience in art education, having served as the head of visual arts department for a primary and secondary school, as well as a part-time lecturer for art courses at various tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Throughout her years of teaching, she has witnessed how art can cultivate creativity and independent thinking in children.