Lum:Firstly I would like to congratulate you on becoming our latest featured artist, how does it feel to be featured?

Kuldar:I’m very proud to be featured artist, I think it’s a very big honour for me to be in the Luminarium and just being selected to be featured artist here is really like a next step for me. I’m really happy about it and I appreciate it very much!

Lum: WWhy don't you tell us a little background about yourself? Hobbies, interesting facts?

Kuldar: Hmm, I’m always inspired by my uncle who has lot of ideas and very sharp drawing skills. So I started to copy him. I was like 5 or 6 year-old and when I had my very first drawing lesson, my teacher was impressed. I was already a small step ahead from others. I also won some competitions, so it gave me even more confidence to continue my work. Of course all my work was done with pencils and I think it’s necessary to do work with traditional tool too. Digital paintings and all this equipment really gave me my “freedom”. I’m self-taught digital-painter, my technical drawing education has helped me a lot, but my knowledge really went up when I started learning in art school. So, in terms of hobbies, I really like cycling, I have a road bike and I have used to ride like 5000km every summer – this is my hobby, and a good way to collect ideas.

Lum: Without much of an artistic background, and entering the digital-art scene relatively late what was it that got you interested in digital art originally?

Kuldar: Like I said before, it’s “freedom” if you can say so. I feel I can express myself and my ideas faster if I use digital media. Of course I still use pencil for sketching and training.

Lum: You have been producing a lot of really high quality artworks recently, any insights into your process you would like to share?

Kuldar: Currently I don’t have any serious works, but I have a lot of sketches. Sometimes I think that if I open Photoshop and I have made so many layers, so I have to make a folder to group different parts – then it’s usually starting point for bigger works and I know it’s going to work in some way. Work in progress can be really transforming to my original sketch. Like hillside can turn into planet etc. But currently I don’t have anything special to share.





Lum: Do you have a favourite piece of artwork which always blows your mind? And what is the favourite piece you have produced yourself?

Kuldar: This is hard question. I usually like artist and their work. Lately I have started to like more traditional paintings – I even try to figure out how to pass on that feeling to my works. So currently I have only sketches. But if you would like the example then it will be Albert Bierstadt “Storm In The Mountains”. But if I have to choose from my works then I think it’s my new work “Giants graveyard”. I spend some hours with it and I learned a lot from it. I usually value knowledge what I get while working on a piece.

Lum: Striving for improvement is something that is a good sign in an artist, a feeling that they can always do better. If you keep this up, where do you think you will be in 10 years time?

Kuldar: Don’t know, working has always been my personal self-transcendence. I have currently some other really big projects which will really affect my future, but I hope to be better artist who creates something beautiful for watchers' eyes

Lum: IOnwards and to the future, and on that note I'm afraid this is the end of the interview, it's been good fun. Any last words for the readers?

Kuldar: Thanks for the feature, I really appreciate it mates! Be cool and eat ice cream.