The Making of the Home Sweet Home Poster

The Farm Chicks Fair theme this year is “Home Sweet Home” and I’ve had a lot of fun bringing the theme together in this year’s poster.

I’d had the idea in my mind about featuring the back of a dollhouse with a hand shown, placing a piece of furniture to show the scale and that it’s a dollhouse, not a house. This year, I commissioned Linsey Sappington of The Farmhouse Porchto paint the poster for me, and once it was painted, I had it printed into poster form at Hearn Brothers Printshop.

The poster is based off the work of Heather Benningand her 8 year long project, “The Dollhouse“.

Image courtesy of Heather Benning

The amount of work Heather put into this life-size project is stunning and I was moved when I learned about how much time she spent bringing the farmhouse back to life as the Dollhouse.

Heather’s work is represented by Slate Art Galleryand you can read about her Dollhouse on the gallery’s website here.

To get started, Linsey’s created an initial overall sketch of the project and tinkered around with adding in elements based off her previous work that fit into the aesthetic:  

Little objects like the bunting on the wall, headboard, floral and dotty wallpaper, a rug, etc.

And last of all, came the lettering to finish it all off.

Special thanks to Heather Benning for the inspiration and to Linsey Sappington for her work on this project.

You can find all the details for The Farm Chicks Vintage & Handmade Fair here.