A bear, stag, fox, badger and other animals gathered around a campfire in a night forest, a hawk carrying a burning branch overhead, drawn in fine white lines on black
Artist
Rocco Lombardi Signed and numbered by the artist.
Printing
Handmade, one colour Screen-printed by BeeInk Serigrafia.
Size
35 × 50 cm Fine 300gsm stock.
Delivery
Continental EU + UK Shipping included in €250 · protective tube.
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The work behind the print

Follow the piece from Rocco’s first pencil sketches through thousands of white marks on black, then into the BeeInk workshop where every sheet was pulled and checked by hand.

  1. Searching for the scene

    The first pages explore the gathering in loose graphite, testing how its animals, fires and landscape might hold together.

    Pages of Rocco Lombardi's early pencil studies for the Bonfire screen print
    EARLY COMPOSITION STUDIES
  2. Making one shared landscape

    Rocco then drew the entire gathering in graphite. The fires, trees and open sky give many separate figures a common rhythm.

    The complete pencil composition, with forest animals gathered around several fires
    THE FULL PENCIL COMPOSITION
  3. From graphite to black

    With the composition beside him, Rocco moved to the final black surface. The pencil drawing remained the map; the finished texture would come from white linework.

    Rocco's drawing board, lamp and pencil composition ready beside the black artwork surface
    THE WORKSPACE

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  1. One animal at a time

    Short strokes build weight and direction. The bear comes forward first while the rest of the scene remains only a set of quiet outlines.

    The bear and smaller animals emerging in white linework while the rest of the artwork remains outlined
    THE BEAR TAKES FORM
  2. Light before detail

    Dense linework turns the upper edge into a night sky. Below it, the untouched stag shows how much planning remains visible before each area is filled.

    A crescent moon and hatched night sky above the unfinished outline of a stag
    MOONLIGHT, HATCHING AND GUIDELINES
  3. Every mark has a direction

    At this scale, the method becomes clear: repeated lines curve around bodies, describe fur and separate one animal from the next.

    Close detail of white linework, with Rocco's fingers showing the small scale of each mark
    THE SCALE OF THE LINEWORK
  4. A gathering within the gathering

    A second fire appears higher in the landscape. Even this small corner becomes its own scene, surrounded by trees and watched over by the larger figures below.

    White linework detail of a ram and wild boar around a small fire among trees
    THE SECOND FIRE
  5. The community fills in

    The central fire finally joins the bear, stag and smaller neighbours. Separate pockets of activity now read as one connected landscape.

    Rocco's hand beside the partly completed central gathering and fire
    THE CENTRAL GATHERING
  6. Almost every part is speaking

    The final pass balances the bright areas, deep shadows and small transitions that let the eye move through such a dense scene.

    The nearly finished Bonfire artwork on the drawing board, with only small areas left to complete
    THE NEARLY COMPLETED ORIGINAL
  7. The forest, complete

    At a distance the drawing becomes one bold black-and-white image. Up close, it opens back into the thousands of individual marks it’s made of.

    The completed original Bonfire artwork on Rocco's drawing board, surrounded by drawing tools
    THE COMPLETED ORIGINAL ON THE DRAWING BOARD

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  1. From paper to ink

    At BeeInk, the finished artwork moves from the drawing board into a screen-printing setup. The image-bearing screen is aligned over the paper so every sheet meets it in the same place.

    A screen-printing frame carrying the Bonfire artwork aligned over a sheet of paper at BeeInk Serigrafia
    ALIGNING THE SCREEN AND PAPER
  2. Ink across the mesh

    Black ink is worked across the prepared screen with a squeegee. Even pressure carries the image through the open areas of the mesh and onto the paper below.

    Black ink and a wooden squeegee being worked across the screen-printing frame
    WORKING THE BLACK INK ACROSS THE SCREEN
  3. The forest appears on paper

    As the screen lifts, the dense woodland returns as a single black impression, surrounded by the wide white margin of the final print.

    The freshly screen-printed Bonfire artwork visible on paper beneath the raised screen
    THE FRESH IMPRESSION ON THE PRINTING BED
  4. A careful hand-off

    The fresh sheet is lifted by its edges, keeping hands clear of the wet ink and preserving the fine marks carried over from Rocco’s original.

    Hands carefully lifting a freshly printed Bonfire sheet from the printing bed
    LIFTING THE FRESHLY PRINTED SHEET
  5. Every pull is checked

    Ink coverage, edges and placement are inspected before the sheet leaves the press. The dark field must stay rich without losing the smallest white details.

    A printer checking the coverage and placement of a fresh Bonfire screen print
    CHECKING THE PRINT BEFORE IT LEAVES THE BED
  6. Sheet after sheet

    The completed prints are laid out separately while the ink settles and dries. The singular drawing has become a physical run of hand-pulled impressions.

    Multiple freshly printed Bonfire sheets laid out in the BeeInk workshop
    THE PRINTED RUN AT BEEINK COOPERATIVE
  7. Made to live on paper

    The finished 35 × 50 cm print preserves the fine linework on heavy 300gsm stock. Every copy in the edition of 250 is signed and numbered by Rocco.

    A bear, stag, fox, badger and other animals gathered around a campfire in a night forest, a hawk carrying a burning branch overhead, drawn in fine white lines on black
    THE FINISHED SIGNED AND NUMBERED PRINT

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The Bonfire Screen Print

Handmade one-colour screen print by BeeInk Serigrafia · 35 × 50 cm · fine 300gsm stock · signed and numbered edition of 250 · continental EU and UK shipping included.

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