Dawson’s Creek has always been my ultimate comfort show. My parents watched the show when it was airing on tv, and one year for Christmas, I got the series on dvd so the three of us could watch the show together.
I love the stories on the show, but I also love it because of how much nostalgia I feel when I watch it; if I’m not mistaken, we finished the series the night before I started high school. Plus, I’m a sucker for a good 2000s WB drama, and this one hits ALL the marks.
Since I started Dawson’s Creek, something I’ve realized I love is going to comic cons – I even think that my first ever comic con was Rhode Island Comic Con where I met John Wesley Shipp from Dawson’s Creek. Anyway, my birthday is next month and I found out that James Van Der Beek and Kerr Smith – Dawson and Jack from the series – are going to be at 90s Con in Hartford, CT the weekend of my birthday!
Kerr Smith has long been my favorite; Jack is such a dynamic and legendary character and I’ve always wanted to meet Kerr. Despite how many conventions I’ve been to over the years, I’ve never been able to meet him. My friends and family know how much meeting him means to me; I literally made my Tumblr bio in high school ‘My number one goal in life is to meet Kerr Smith’ (and embarrassingly enough, that bio is still on that profile even though the account is has long been dormant).
Kerr has only recently started making convention appearances, and last summer, I found out the day before his appearance that he was going to be in Austin, TX and I had everything planned within an hour to pack up and fly to Austin, but my friends and family (rightfully) pushed me to wait, convinced he’d be a convention closer to me.
Thankfully, they were right!
So, as I started mentally prepping to meet him and James, I began thinking of what I wanted them to sign. I’m not normally a big fan of getting autographs, but I’ve loved this show for so long and have wanted to meet the cast for so long that I figured I should get their autographs. I really didn’t want them signing something generic though that would just end up sitting in a folder, never to be seen again. That’s when I got the idea: I could paint something!
I’ve been diving back into painting recently and I’ve had a couple actors sign canvases I’ve painted. Check them out below.
The canvas on the right is signed by Josh Radnor from How I Met Your Mother. I painted some little motifs from the show – the yellow umbrella, Ted’s red cowboy boots, and the blue French horn – and I included one of my favorite jokes from the show Have You Met Ted? I also included a line from the band The Summer Set’s song Legendary, which is based off of How I Met Your Mother.
I know I’m being ambitious in my thinking for my Dawson’s Creek painting, but check out what I’m going to attempt painting for 90s Con.
Wish me luck!!
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