from a book called trust the process

We are always arranging things in our environments with
the goal of achieving expressive effects. If you approach what
you already do on your desk or in your kitchen from the pers
pective of artistic expression, you experience yourself as
a participant in the creative process as opposed to an on
looker. So much of art involves moving materials that al
ready exist into new relationship with one another

Explore the widest range of marks & possibilities for
changing the visual & tactile appearances of a surface

One of the best ways to access your innate expressive
style is to draw in a way that is graphically consistent with
the way you write

Find other nature markings and reflect upon their aesthetic
qualities... Although art has room for many ways of creating,
the person beginning to create and the experienced creator
seeking renewal will find freedom of expression and surprisingly
beautiful configurations in the unaffected ways of making marks
that we all use in daily life