【微小的历史】白振新：新加坡鱼尾狮安装时，我在旁边写生

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编按：我们社群有着许多艺术家、艺术爱好者，虽然他们不如梵高、莫奈出名，但我们认为，他们一样对世界充满着价值。只要启发人们对世间美好的感叹，对世界、社会有着积极的贡献，也有不可忽视的价值。我们在此推出【微小的历史】，展现时代中微小个体对艺术的追求与执着，他们历经岁月的艺术作品，当我们阅览不同艺术家、艺术爱好者的作品外，也可以从画笔下感受时代的流淌与变迁。此栏目欢迎画友们投稿，让我们一窥不同的艺术故事与历史。

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白振新 ， 新加坡人，多元艺术家，喜爱速写、绘画、雕塑、摄影和写作。其中绘画包括铅笔画、炭笔画、 钢笔画、水墨画、油画和数码艺术。他只上一些短期课程，大半都是自修自学。他曾经是一名电脑软件工程专业人士，跨国公司的高级技术管理，最后从商进入创业投资。至今是半退休艺术人士。

我儿时的艺术回忆

鱼尾狮公园（Merlion Park）是新加坡面积最小的公园，鱼尾狮（Merlion）是虚构的鱼身狮头的动物

1964年由当时的Van Kleef水族馆馆长Fraser Brunner设计

我整理我的书房和数字化我自己的过去的照片和童年生活档案时，我偶然发现了这本我从小保存的第一本速写本。这就像是从小学高年级到中学2年级（11-14岁）之间的某个时刻。那时我还没有那么认真，因此，只有这几页，大部分的页面仍然没有动过。所以，在这里与大家分享，我童年时候的作品和一张照片，我在海边(Esplanade)进行城市速写，鱼尾狮首次安装在海滨。有些手绘画在废纸上，打发无聊的时间。显然，在我的数字扫描仪扫描后，看起来很复古，很有历史感的泛黄，我很喜欢。

可以看出，我对艺术的接触和启蒙，主要受我父亲书店出售的漫画和一些艺术书籍。这些书主要是从香港和中国进口的。所以，每当我遇到一些我喜欢的漂亮的图象/插图时，我都会从中学习或临摹，无论是照片还是插图。

追溯到更早的时候，我记得我在小学时就开始在廉价的速写本作画。这类题材要么是一些在一战、二战战场上作战的士兵，要么是跟随我的兄弟，从一些中国武侠小说中，自我想象创作的漫画。

在学校里，我受到了一个很有天赋的同学的启发，他可以从想象中，轻易地画出各种姿势的士兵，而我只能受限于二维空间，画的很平面，就像埃及艺术那些肖像。不幸的是，这些书要么被扔掉，要么被白蚁吃掉。

后来，我对自己艺术能力的信心增强了，因为我在小学六年级的时候，赢得了一场艺术竞赛，初二时候获得了同龄人的最大的艺术奖。所以，不知怎的，你知道艺术在你的血液里。很可惜，当时没有保存任何影像记录，我只记得前者是在一个Thiapusam展览，后者作品是一个海报艺术。我的小学校刊也被白蚁吃掉了。

当我进入中学三年级（15岁）时，我停止了艺术绘画和绘画，尽管我还在生物课上做“艺术”，画植物、动物和人体解剖学，还会收集漂亮的艺术图片和邮票。此后，我加入了学校摄影俱乐部，从那时起摄影成为我的艺术关注焦点，我将在下一篇文章中进一步介绍。

My Childhood Art

While decluttering my study room and digitizing my own past photos and childhood life archive, I came across my this first sketchbook I kept since my childhood.

This was like sometime between late primary to Secondary 2 (age 11-14). I wasn’t that serious and therefore, there is only these few pages, with most of the book still untouched. So, here to share with you my past child works and a photo where I do my “Urban Sketching” at the Esplanade when the Merlion was first installed at our waterfront. Apparently, it is so jaded and yellowed that after scanning with my digital scanner, it do give a touch of vintage look that I like. Some were even just drawn on Foolscrap paper to pass boring time...

As can be seen, my exposure to art was mainly influenced by those comic and some art books sold in my father’s bookshop, mainly imported from Hong Kong and China. So, whenever, I came across some nice drawings/pictures I like, I would learn to copy and draw from it, be it a photo print or an illustration art.

Tracing back even earlier, I can remember I started drawing on cheap jotter book in my primary school days. The genre would be either be some soldiers fighting on battlefield of WWI and WWII or follow my sibling self-imagined comic drawing on some Chinese fighting novel (武侠小说)。In school I was very much inspired by a talented classmate who can simply draw soldiers in various poses in perspective out of imagination whilst I can only draw in 2D like that Egyptian art. Unfortunately, all those books were either thrown away or eaten up by termites.

A boost of confidence in my art capability was winning a art competition in my Primary 6 and achieving the top art prize in my cohort in Secondary Two. So, somehow you know art is in your blood. No images were preserved back then and I can only remember the former was on a Thiapusam processing parade and the latter was a poster art. My primary school magazine has also been eaten by termites.

As I progress to Secondary Three (Age 15), I stopped doing artistic drawing and painting, even though I still do “art” in my biology lessons drawing plants, animal and human anatomy and would collect nice pictures and stamps of art. Thereafter, I joined the School Photographic Club and Photography becomes my arts focus since then, details of which I will post further on this in my next post.

我的青年艺术-摄影

15岁时，我开始把摄影作为下一个爱好。在我的中学三年级，我加入了学校摄影协会作为我课外活动的一部分。我使用的第一个相机是Yashica双眼连轴相机，它是从针孔相机的概念发展而来的。它配有一个55毫米的大尺寸胶卷。我很幸运能从我的哥哥姐姐那里借到这个，他们已经开始工作了，还买了一个相机给他们拍约会照。

还有一种类型叫做35mm测距仪，它使用视差方法来聚焦。严肃和专业的摄影师会选择单反相机（SLR）与可互换镜头。当我在军队服役后，我有了固定收入，才买了第一个单反。

我高中生涯在Victoria School，这是我为摄影社团设计的领章。作为新加坡第一所有领章的学校，这是很酷很时尚的感觉... 那时候，只有大专院校有校徽领章，更正一下，唯二，华中和大专院校才有领章。

A collar badge I designed for my photographic society in my high school at Victoria School. It was a cool fashionable sensation as the first school in Singapore to have collar pins... Back then, only the junior colleges pin their school badges on the collar.. and there were only two, Hwa Chong n National Junior College.

当时，唯一使用的媒体是全都是胶卷，没有人梦想过今日的数字化。胶卷影像一般分为两部分，一部分是拍照，一部分是学习使用相机，另一部分是后期处理，在暗室里冲洗胶卷和照片。我们学习了摄影的基本原理，如胶片感光速度（DIN/ISO）、光圈和速度的设置、聚焦、平移、长曝光夜间摄影、滤光片的使用、变焦和基本镜头等，所有这些都是机械和手动的，我们必须学会判断环境光强度，以确定正确的相机设置使用。专业人士是唯一一个使用非常昂贵的测光和变焦镜头的人。

对于后期处理，我们在学校提供的暗室里学习并制作了自己的胶片冲洗和照片。电影冲洗成底片后，我们用投影仪放大，冲洗成各种尺寸的照片。然后，相纸经过不同阶段的湿化学品处理，然后晾干。所有这些都是在暗室里用低暗的红光做的，因为这些光线非常敏感。这是一个很长的过程，通常只花几个小时来处理少数几张照片，但这真的很有趣，尤其是等待看到的图片只出现在照片上。那个时候，当你按下相机快门后，必须等待数小时或数天后才能看到影像。

老式的暗室方法也有各种技巧，以产生非常艺术的图像输出，像高对比度或轮廓边缘图像，就像插图艺术的风格。摄影学会的活动包括到公共公园（如圣淘沙的鸟园和动物园）进行摄影，并在暗室里冲洗胶卷/照片。偶尔，我们会参加摄影展和参观摄影展。俱乐部成员还担任学校活动和杂志的官方摄影师，这些日子一直持续到高中。直到今天，我断断续续接触数字媒体和艺术职业生涯的后期，在职业生涯中，3D立体视频、电影摄影和电影制作方面都有短暂时间的涉猎。

当我去加拿大的大学攻读计算机科学专业时，图像处理（就像今天的照片软件一样）是我的最爱之一，开发算法软件处理今天你所知道的核磁共振成像、Photoshop等图像。毕业后，我差点就进入柯达在这领域工作，但上世纪80年代曾是《财富》500强前10名的柯达发现，放弃利润丰厚的电影业务太痛苦，而且适应速度太慢。它很快就像恐龙一样在快速变化的科技世界中遭受了灭绝的命运。

快速前进到今天的数码摄影世界，甚至相机和Photoshop都几乎是过时的，因为从拍照、处理和编辑的整个过程都可以用一个小手机完成。然而，摄影的共同基础，如构图艺术和发展审美眼光，仍然存在，而且也与绘画和任何视觉艺术形式有关。

My Youth Arts - Photography

At the age of 15, I started to pick up Photography as my next hobby. At my secondary 3, I joined the school Photography Society as part of my Extra-curricular activities.

The first camera I used was a Yashica twin-lenses camera developed from the concept of the pin-hole camera. It comes with a 55mm large size film. I was fortunate to have this borrowed from my senior siblings who had already started working and bought a camera for their dating photos.

There is another type called the 35mm range-finder which use the parallax method to focus. The serious and professional photographers would opt for a Single-lense reflex (SLR) camera with interchangeable lenses which I only get to buy one after making my stipend income from my National Services in the army.

Back then, the only medium used was all film, no one ever dream of digital. There are generally two parts, the photo-taking part where one learnt to use the camera and the post-processing part where you developed the film and photographs in the darkroom.

We learnt the fundamentals of photography like film Sensitivity Speed (DIN/ISO), manipulating the settings of aperture and speed, focusing, panning, long-exposure night photography, use of filters, zoom and prime lenses etc. Back then, all are mechanical and manual and we have to learn to judge the environmental light intensity to determine the right camera settings to use. The professionals were the only one that will use light metering and zoom lenses which were very expensive.

For post-processing, we learnt and did our own film developing and photographs using chemicals in darkroom provided in the school. After the films were developed into negatives, we used an optical projector to enlarge and developed them into photographs of various sizes. The photographic paper then processes through various stages of wet chemicals and then left to dry. All these had to been done in the darkroom with a low dimmed red light as these are very light sensitive. It can be a long process usually spending hours just to process the few photographs, but it was really fun especially the wait to see the images appeared only on photos, hours or days after you had taken with your cameras.

The old fashioned darkroom methods also have various tricks to produce very artistic images output like high-contrast or outline edging images as in illustration art. Activities of the Photography Club includes a photographic outing to public parks like Bird Parks and Zoos, Sentosa and spend the times in the darkroom developing the film/photos. Occasionally, we would participate in a Photo exhibition and visit Photo shows. Members of the club also serve as official photographers for the school functions and magazines. This continues to high school and till today, with a short span into even 3D stereoscopic video and cinematography and film production in the later part of my career in digital media and arts.

When I went to Canada for my university study in Computer Science, Image Processing (as what Photo software did today) was one of my favourites and you developed algorithmic software to process images use in today’s MRI, Photoshop etc. After graduation, I almost work for Kodak in this field, but the once Top-10 Fortune 500 company back in the 1980s find it too painful to let go its lucrative film business and were too slow to adapt. It soon suffered its fate of extinction like the dinosaurs in the fast-changing technological world.

Fast forward to today world of digital photography, even cameras and Photoshop is almost obsolete as the entire process from photo-taking, processing and edit can all be done with just a small mobile phone. However, the common fundamentals of photography such as the Art of Composition and developing the eye for beauty remains and is also relevant to drawing/painting and any visual arts forms.

古典油画研究与练习作品2: 65 x 80 公寸

画家逝母之像 12 x 16寸

油画作品与进展(2015 – 2018)

钢笔水墨写生素描

数码绘画（2012）

陶土雕塑

艺术履历

2009 年，他开始硏修数码艺术。2011 年，转而偏好传统绘画艺术，2013， 2015 运赴到意大利佛罗伦萨和英国，拜大师Michael Angel学习西方油画， 2018 更到尔罗斯圣彼得堡列宾美术学院专修铅笔画油画夏日课程。

他的美术爱好倾向于自然现实派，特别喜爱人像人体油画与雕塑。他也很活跃于美术社群，经常参与风景画速写，并共同举办展览，如Urban Sketchers《东南亚城市速写社群》，Creative Singapore! Meetup《创作吧！新加坡》Singapore Federation of Arts.《新加坡艺术总会》，Sculpture Society Singapore 《新加坡雕塑协会》。他的作品也曾刊登于ImagineFX 《国际科幻美术杂志》和 Let’s Draw 《绘吧！新加坡五十周年》风景画册等等。

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