Mixed media artist Sherry Ball Schoenfeldt of Edmond has been an artist her entire life. While she was growing up in the Houston and Dallas, Texas, areas, her parents noticed her interest and signed her up for private instruction when she was about 12.

She started with charcoal and then went into pen and ink, learning how to draw the human figure and her surroundings. Then she graduated to oil painting.

Her art career "went on the backburner" when she became a mom. About 20 years ago, right before she moved to the Oklahoma City area, Schoenfeldt started "delving into my art again more solidly....