Voices of Experience - C. W. Mundy

All Along the Boulevard 24 x 36” Oil on Linen 2012 © C. W. Mundy
California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition
Franz Bischoff Award for Best Still Life, 2013

“The directorship of painting is absolutely one of the most important skills needed by artists.”
- C. W. Mundy

C. W. Mundy has strong convictions and has expressed his views in interviews with various art publications as well as in articles he has written for International Artist magazine. Among those articles, he outlined his “Seven Foundational Truths of Painting” (Issue No. 20 - 2001). The “Seven Foundational Truths” are the important basics of learning the skills to become a proficient artist—drawing, squinting, finding a centrality of focus, values, colors, edges and paint manipulation. But beyond the very necessary commitment to learning these skills, Mundy believes in finding a personal…