Milton Keynes · Woolstone
Life Drawing Classes in Milton Keynes
Draw from a live model every Sunday evening. Quiet, untutored and open to every level. No booking needed, just turn up.
- Sundays7–9pm
- WoolstoneCommunity Centre, MK15
- £13book online, or pay on the night
Three ways to draw with us
Come for the practice, stay for the study. Pick the one that fits where you are.
The Practice
Sunday Sessions
Weekly drop-in life drawing. Untutored and quiet, with a new model most weeks. Short poses to warm up, one long pose to settle into.
The Study
The Artist Roadmap 2027
A structured course led by Csaba Tibor Palotas: Old Masters, line and gesture, anatomy and light, built term by term in a small group.
The Masters
Masterclasses
Weekend workshops with visiting painters. October 2026: Anastasia Pollard RP, two days of academic figure painting from life.
How Sunday sessions work
It's an untutored session: no teacher, no critique, just two steady hours of practice from a professional life model. Beginners sit beside people who've drawn for decades, usually ten or twelve of us, with easy music in the background.
The first hour follows the Fibonacci sequence, with poses of 5 · 8 · 13 · 21 minutes. After a short break comes one long pose of 45–50 minutes.
- When
- Every Sunday, 7–9pm
- Where
- Woolstone Community Centre, Mill Lane, Milton Keynes MK15 0AJ
- Cost
- £13: pay online in advance, or card or cash on the night
- Booking
- Not required. Just turn up, or book online to secure your seat
- Provided
- Drawing boards, paper, charcoal and pencils. Bring your own easel if you like.
- Level
- Everyone, from first-timers to professionals
Before you set off: we very occasionally take a Sunday off. Please check our Instagram or Facebook on the day, around midday, for that evening's session update.
What our students say
★★★★★
“I've been going to life drawing classes for years, but I feel like I've made some real breakthroughs on this course. I will never approach drawing in the same way.”
★★★★★
“Csaba is a great teacher: patient, enthusiastic and knowledgeable. The course itself was deliberately challenging but 100% worth doing!”
★★★★★
“The content was very detailed and well supported with handouts to help with practice at home. Set in a beautiful old church, and the class was small, so there was lots of 1:1 support. Highly recommend.”
Why draw the figure
Reviving the lost art of life drawing in Milton Keynes
Whether you paint in oils, work digitally or sketch in charcoal, drawing is the foundation everything else is built on. Talent varies, but real skill comes from time, patience and steady practice.
As many art schools move away from technical training, drawing from the living model is becoming rare. We're here to keep it alive: a quiet place to slow down, look properly, and learn the observation and structure a photograph can never teach. All of it inside the 13th-century church building at Woolstone.
The people behind Sundays
A small team of artists who keep the easels set up, the models booked and the kettle on.
Csaba Tibor Palotas
Painter and tattoo artist. Runs the Sunday sessions, teaches the Artist Roadmap and brings guest masters to Milton Keynes.
Outside the life room: oil paintings, the Pulse of the Paradox prints, his book Inner Body, and mindfulness at The Practice of Being.
Antonella
Artist and organisational genius. Books and coordinates our life models, so every Sunday runs smoothly.
Clive Bryant
Professional artist and maker of tools for artists, including the Talking Timer, CamFlip+ and Palette Checker. Helps set up and run Sundays.
This week at the easel
@lifedrawingmk on Instagram
Inner Body: A Somatic Sketchbook
Twenty-four blurred charcoal drawings and five short body-awareness pauses. A quiet book for people who spend most of their day in their heads.
Don't draw a blank
Every so often a letter from the studio: new sessions and courses, what's on the easel, and a short reflection to slow the week down.