Examples of An Artist's Craftsmanship at Work - 3
Let's continue with examples of an artist's craftsmanship at work. Last time we meandered from the artist using the discipline of craftsmanship to some applications to our own labors, either domestic or in the workplace. (And, by the way, the artist and craftsman share in similar domestic challenges that require persistent, diligent attention.) But returning to the artist whose expression of creative impulses require a craftsman's touch, look at that example we used of the lyricist Oscar Hammerstein from the opening lines of the musical Oklahoma!: There's a bright golden haze on the meadow There's a bright golden haze on the meadow The corn is as high as an elephant's eye And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky Oh, what a beautiful mornin' Oh, what a beautiful day I've got a beautiful feeling Everything's going my way We noted that these words didn't just pop out of his brain. They were likely the result of long roun...
