Mandala Studio Project Step 3 Illustration abstraction Do this in your sketchbook. Title the page ‘Illustration Abstraction’. Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition, which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Basically, you will be SIMPLYFYING your chosen illustration into more concrete shapes, colors and lines. Perhaps you want to turn something in your illustration into a PATTERN (a repeated shape). You will choose 4 out of your 6 illustrations to ABSTRACT. 1. Abstracted ONCE 2. Abstracted FURTHER