You can categorize your time in three buckets: value added time, non value added time (also known as busy work), and artist work time. It’s not about replacing non-value added time with value added time, it’s about replacing non-value added time with time available for the artist to go to work. Driving a nail into a board to build a house is value added; finding an innovative, more efficient way to build a house, and executing on that idea, that is the work of an artist!