“It felt kind of freaky when I saw it. It was such a ‘wow’ moment — like, somebody has painted this lady who looks just like me.”
Smith couldn’t believe the uncanny details — from hair color and coils to the “large” forehead and blue eyes.“It felt kind of freaky when I saw it. It was such a ‘wow’ moment — like, somebody has painted this lady who looks just like me,” she said.Now, her doppelgänger hangs proudly in her living room above her bookshelf, where visitors often comment on the bizarre likeness.
Smith eventually unearthed the name of the artist, Stephen Farris Jr., a late painter and WWII fighter pilot who served in the US Air Force.“I asked if she knew who it was that he painted, and she said that he went to art classes where random people would sit for the paintings,” Smith said.
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