Though it’s on to the second quarter of the school year, AP 2D Art students are still working on a piece from the first quarter. 

Known as marketplace art, students are creating realistic art pieces out of common items that are sold in stores. 

“It’s usually produced, that’s the thing [my teacher] wants us to draw,” junior Aparajitha Srinivasan said. “This includes a stack of tomatoes, a stack of apples, bananas, stuff like that but it can really be anything like if you go to the cereal section and take a picture of the boxes and the idea is to basically replicate it as realistically as possible,” 

Students are encouraged to work with multiple media to enhance their art pieces. 

“I used soft pastels because I haven’t used it in a while and I just wanted to try it out and see if I liked it again,” junior Laasya Puranam said.

For art teacher Emily Delarios, students should be focusing on the element of realism.

“Working from a photo, we’re kind of going for realism, working with color,” Delarios said. “These are hopefully going to be selective works for their AP portfolios.”