Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents - How A Prolific Artist Turns Ideas Into 1,900 Drawings

Episode Date: October 3, 2026

Fan MailHe’s made more than 1,900 drawings in 25 years and he’s still accelerating. We sit down again with Murphy Elliot to talk about what it actually takes to create that much work without losing your spark, and why he believes one finished drawing is the best fuel for the next one.We get practical and nerdy about the craft: chasing dramatic light and hard shadow, adding background detail that makes a pencil piece feel cinematic, and building themed series that stretch your range, from Halloween scarecrows, witches, skeletons, and the Grim Reaper to portraits that people instantly recognize. Murphy also breaks down the grid method he uses to enlarge images while keeping proportions right, a simple technique artists can apply to everything from portraits to big wall-sized projects.Then we zoom out to the real-world side of sharing art online. We talk copyright limits, why some celebrity drawings can’t be sold on products, and what it’s like when commenters attack the subject of a portrait instead of the quality of the artwork. Murphy shares where to find his work, how he thinks about feedback, and how he keeps learning by listening to audiobooks while he draws.Fair warning: the conversation also takes a sharp, unexpected turn into Murphy’s personal views on pharmaceuticals, cancer treatment claims, and parasites. It’s candid, opinionated, and a reminder to do your own research and consult qualified medical professionals for health decisions.If you love artist interviews, drawing techniques, and honest creative life talk, hit play, then subscribe, share this with an artist friend, and leave a review so more listeners can find the show.New music A message from me to all my wonderful  followers.  Please  feel free to share your feedback. Click fan mail and leave me comments.  Show endSupport the showContact My official website https://www.reginaswarn.comEmail address [e-mail] Podcast  themes  composed by John Nathaniel Thomas - IntroChris Murphy Elliott  - Ending

Welcome to Regina Sworn Audio Series Presents, where I bring you stories of people from all walks of life. I'm your host, Regina Sworn. Contact me at Sworn Regina at gmail.com. Now, let's take you into an episode of Regina Sworn Audio Series Presents. Welcome back to Ritina Swarn Audio Series presents. Today, as promised. Now, we were just a few days later, but it still got the genius here, y'all. And you know, he was on my podcast three times before.

And it's still ranked as one of my top, you know, when Murphy was on the last three times. is still up there in the top. I got like a top ten. And I'm kind of scared to do the top ten because some people might say, I wasn't there. But Murphy is in that top ten. Yes, he is. That means a lot of people resonated with his story.

And boy, does he have a story. So I would like for all of you to help me welcome back, my amazing friend. And the genius himself, I call him a genius, the amazing Murphy. Elliot, hi Murphy. Oh, good morning there, my dear. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. I'm doing great.

I'm so happy to have you on the podcast again. It's always a pleasure. It's always like an honor, actually, because I really look up to you in the manner that you're so amazing. I think that's a good word you use. You're amazing. Thank you for that. Well, you are.

So what have you been up to the last time we got together? I mean, that was like, I don't know, boy, that's been like about six or seven months ago, haven't it? I longer. I have been drawing. As most of my friends

know that I draw something every single day. I think I spend a little too much time drawing. My hands are starting to get sore. Oh, well, you know what, Murphy, I look over online

at your art site, and I notice you've added quite a few items over there. I mean, I'm like, I can't even count how many since the last time you were here. So exactly, if you know the number, how many have you created just the last time we called?

Over 200, over 200 pieces since we last talk. Good Lord, 200? Over 200? And I'm in the middle of one right now. Oh my God, that is amazing. That's amazing. Let me put this in my head again. You did say over 200, right?

Over 200 in the last six months. Murphy, that is amazing. That's outstanding. Did you guys hear that? Did you hear him, Murphy Elliott, say over 200 since the last time he was on my podcast. And that really hasn't been that long ago. I don't think so. It hasn't been that long ago.

Let me ask you this. I think maybe I asked you this question the last time we talked. I don't know if I did, but I'm going to ask it again. I would like to personally know what goes through your mind when you are drawing or when you're painting since you create so much. What goes to your mind when you're creating? Well, I like to challenge myself. And I do have a problem with, I'm in the middle of a drawing and it gives me another idea. That keeps happening to me all the time

where I'm in the middle of a drawing and oh wow, I should draw that or let me try to make that effect or whatever. Lately, I've been trying to get, I don't know, the mirror is a famous artist from way, way back in the day. And he was being strong light onto a subject. And I've been trying to do that here lately with my pencil. so we're having a strong light source.

So it's hard shadow and strong light. And I've been drawing that. And I've been adding a lot more background detail to a lot of my drawings. Oh, mom. I think it makes them a little more attractive. Yeah. And again, I'll wait until the next one. But, you know, this is a month's Halloween.

Oh, yeah. I've done a lot of Halloween drawings. I did a series of three scarecrows. And I've tried to become really scary. And I've done three or four witches, good-month-witchie and ugly witches and some zombies and skeletons. I haven't in the past really gotten into Halloween. But over this year, I've done quite a few in this month.

I'll be showing them on my Facebook page. They're already on my Fine Art America page, but I'll show them on my Facebook page. Yeah. You know, my favorite is the skeleton bone. The skeleton. I always like it because it's got, I don't know, it's just this little wobbly look,

and then it's like hard and slinky and got no hair. That's always my favorite, the skeleton. Yes. Have you ever created this skeleton? I've drawn a girl with a skeleton. Really? I did the Grim Reaper this year. Oh, wow.

Yeah, I think the Grim Reaper is cute. Yeah. Maybe not cute, but, you know. I always had trouble doing scary until the last year or so, And I've got sort of, oh, this is how you do it. When I tried to do something scary, it came more like a Disney character rather than something scary. Oh, really? Now, speaking of Disney characters, have you created Disney characters before?

I believe you have. But have you created anything from Disney? No. And I try to avoid it. They have copyright laws. They want money if I create it And there's some people Who don't want me to sell

Pictures of them Because that's what they do Like Taylor Swift I've drawn her a few times But I'm not allowed to sell any of the drawings Of her on any product Oh my goodness They do that and make money

Oh my God Really? My most popular drawing, I think, wait a minute is I did Dolly Parton. Dolly! I think I nailed it. I did a good drawing of her

and a lot of people like that. I got over 200 comments on next door on her. A lot of these, but a lot more comment. Yeah. I came across your latest

dolly creations and they're very very beautiful. Very beautiful. Yeah, I've done her four times over the years. Wow. The latest one I think was my best. She's a sweet lady. I know

Dolly, she would love it. You know, he was all laid back and she always just appreciated the fans and people so I know she would have like just loved it. I know for a fact he would have

she had a lot of fans and she did a lot of work and she was very, very popular and still is yeah she was very humble and down the earth that's what I loved about her

yeah she's she's had some good stories that she tells you she's kind of funny yeah yeah she had that wonderful sense of humor that was the

One of the great characteristics about it, she had a wonderful sense of humor. She knew how to make you laugh. And then she knew how to be serious, you know. She was a business woman, too, you know. Yes, indeed. Yeah. Well, speaking of drawing photos, you created a few of me. Yeah, I've been, I counted them every day, over 30 drawings of you in different.

situation. Oh my God, Murphy. And look, I am honored. I'm thankful for you. I mean, to have the genius create my image, man, that is, that's too much. And I put in the order

everybody. I order some mugs. I order some pictures. I think get around to ordering the shower curtains. I think I want those. I want the shower curtains. so bad. Not all of them are perfect. I do use artistic license

on some of them. But you post some good photos and I've become pretty good at copying a photo and making it fairly accurate. That was one of the first things I did when I was

11 or 12 years old was the matchbook, draw, can you draw the and that's where I started. Now, I'll use a grid method in a lot of cases, especially if I want to enlarge

something, I'll use the grid method. Yeah. I don't know if you know what the grid method is. Well, you can refresh my memory. I might know. You never know. If you've got a picture that you want to draw and make it bigger,

if you put a grid, on it. Any size squares. They have to be square. They can't be rectangle or all. And then draw a larger one. So you've got a

quarter inch squares on the original drawing. And then you make a grid with a foot square each you just whatever's in each square you draw until it comes out. The same

and the proportions are the same. That's how I did a lot of the large painting it's a dinosaur world the dinosaurs that I drew

I draw them on paper first and then use a rig and then put the grid

on the wall larger and square by square reproduce it that's cool

that's cool can I make a request Morphy of course I love the deer that's my

favorite like animal and if you can like create a picture of me with the deer I would be the happiest person in the world

all right I wrote that down please because the deer is my favorite animal they're my favorite yeah I've been doing a lot of I've been doing a lot of

reminiscing lately I'm getting old and I'm thinking back at some of the stuff that I did And I realized it was 40 years ago this year. Wow. I painted pavilions at the World's Fair. 40 years ago. Wow.

I'm getting old. That was 34 when I did those pavilion. 34. I was going to ask you, speaking of kidding, oh, I want to ask you, like, because I know you started painting, Jory, again, you started like when you was a young boy

right? 1967, I did my first drawing. Boy, that's amazing. 1957. I said they're trying to count. I still remember the drawing.

Wow, you still remember the drawing. That's a long time. Oh, I know. Let me see. do the math 69 years ago. My Lord. And this is something that Murphy,

Murphy, you draw every day, right? You paint or draw every single day if you can. Every single day, sometimes I do two

and I've even done like three drawings in a day. Three in a day. I get excited. Yeah. Well, that's, that, is that you, that's something you love, and it got to come from the heart.

So, and I can tell when I, when I look at your pictures and your drawings, and you can tell that you really feel it is something that comes from within, because, I mean, you can just look at Intel. So, you know what? I got, I've been aching to ask you this question. I've been looking up at the fine art site, and I think, if I'm not mistaken, I'm I noticed that you, I think you did a picture of our first lady. Melania.

Yes. Yes. And I was online and I saw my drawing. And it was on Milana Trump's site. And she said, we've made this an official White House portrait. So I was quite pleased with that, but I haven't had a chance to talk to her yet. Yeah. Boy, but the fact that it was even noticed like that.

Yeah, I was quite honored. She's quite nice, and I meet her look good. We all get older as time goes on, but I kept her booking young. Yeah, and she probably really loved it. And I didn't see it, and it's really beautiful. You did a great job. You do great work anyway, Murphy. You do great work.

How many exactly have you created of the First Lady? Five, I think five or six. Some of them are with her husband, Donald. And some of them, she's standing alone. I did one of her standing in front of the desk in the White House with the background. and one I did with her standing beside her husband. Yeah. And I've done at least two of her portraits, just portraits of her.

One is more realistic. In my eye, it's more realistic. And one I added color too. Yeah. And you know. Quite a few politicians lately, but we don't want to be talking politics. Yeah, but I'm going to throw this in here quickly. I did see a few that you did of the president, and they're very nice.

I see one that you did. I'm like, that's right on cue. That's right on cue. You did a great job of him. You really did. Did you see the one where I put me behind his desk? Hey there, I'm Regina Sorin. I always leave my email in my podcast.

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and I'll get your message. Thanks a bunch, guys. I think I did see that. I was looking through them pretty fast because you got so many drawings. I mean, when you go look at your work, you got so much that is a lot

to consume. But I think I did want to cross that one. I have over 1900 on my Fine Art America site. Yeah. 1800. Did you guys hear that?

That's a lot of drawing. That's a lot of, that's a lot of work. But to him, it's not work because it's something that he love. So that's his passion. Is that the right word to you? That's your passion, right? I would say I get passionate about my work. But I seem to go in cycle.

Like I said, one piece inspired the next piece. Like I did a series of sticks. with flying saucers and modern cars. I did a series of flying saucers with alien women standing in front or beside them.

Yeah. Yeah. I get excited and one thing leads to another, of course. I've done astronauts, female astronauts in their uniforms and a few guys and a lot of

them, I did portraits and then I did some full figures, of course. Yeah, the astronauts, they're cool, too, but back to those aliens. I've done quite a few. They're really amazing. When it comes to aliens, I just invent them. Yeah, you'd like get carried away with them. Like, you just really get creative with you just start doing things with them.

Like, you know, I was looking at one of them, I believe. And it looked like he was, this is a lady, though. She was just standing there and looked like she had a little about herself. Like a kind of sexy, like a sexy one, if I could say that word. Yeah, that's my style too. Yeah. And I want to want to let you know I love it. Also, I tried to do some that is similar to the Brockwell style.

Wow. They're not quite as popular as some of the other stuff that I've done. But I did one of a barber with a boy in a chair, and that was so much Rockwell style. Yeah. The times that Rockwell was painting, it was, he did a good job of capturing that time period. Yeah. I did try to do a series of our time period where I had. have women and they're all looking at cell phone.

Really? Wow. What a kind of step. Why do I do like that looking at cell phone? I also, I did some pirates, a lot of detail. Okay. Boy, Murphy, I'm telling you, I'm still blown away by, I think he said, over 200 since the last time we taught. That's a lot of pictures.

I might have even done more than that. Personally, I think you have. I really do. Because you got a lot of stuff. I'm going to be putting in another order soon. You know, I got to get that deer. That deer is on my mind right now. I can't think of anything else.

I did write it down. Also, Fourth of July, I did a couple. I did one of a revolutionary soldier in front of a flag with the 13 stars. Oh, wow. To go with it, I did a modern soldier standing in front of a flag with our 50 stars on it. Oh, boy. That was nice. it up at the fine art site?

Yes. Okay. I've got a big thing. Yeah. I've done a lot of cowgirls with horses. I always like the Western genre. I've done a few of that. And a few Indians.

Oh, wow. Just like I said, I just try to come up with something new that challenges me. I did one of not the last supper, but I did a drawing of five disciples preparing for the last supper. Then they're sitting around chopping up as to pull them. Oh, wow. The guy that, I forget, I know his last name is Boone, have gone, will travel. Oh, yeah. Have you ever created him before?

I've done two drawings of him. I did one of just a portrait of him and another one with him holding his son. Oh, wow. Yeah. I put those together. Yeah. And, of course, Gregory Peck,

but I don't think you got, I think you said you did one of Gregory Peck or two or something like that. Well, just one, and it was with you. Him with you, but that's him good. I wasn't really inspired by Gregory. I know you were. Yeah, that's my man.

Gregory is my man, no? I appreciate what you did, though, with me and Gregory. I appreciate that. It made me feel good. Yeah. I did one of you on a motorcycle. What Gregory Peck. Sure did.

I did. I was just sitting on a motorcycle. motorcycle. Yeah. I don't know. That's all that one. Yeah. And one where, I don't know if it was from one of the movies he did, but one way he

was holding around me, like, that, that, oh, man, that picture for days, I was like, oh, my man. That's my man. I mean, that's my favorite actor, right? I can't help it. I love all of this movie, so I, I just can't help it. I love, I love, I love, I love it. We should let people know that they want to get to my website.

It's actually Murphy-esheelyt. com. Okay, say that one more time. Listen now, this is how you can get to Murphy online, you know, to cite where all of your pictures are there, I'll assume, right? Yes. Okay, so tell us that again. Murphy

as elliot dot pixels xELS dot com wow that's my fine art America site yeah and I have a variety of a big variety of drawing

I have some that I was really pleased with and I did a series again I got into it doing robots female robots Yeah I think I did see something like that A lot of detail It's almost like the illusion of detail

They look like They'll walk away but They're not operable But it was fun of it Boy, you think one day we're going to be in a world of robots Do you think? It's already happening Good boy

I think that would be kind of cool, though. Can you imagine you being a robot, me being a robot, and we just be walking around, like, whatever? Or would that be too far enough? I'm looking at the fox drawing that you were asking if I did a fox. I'm looking at it right now. Oh, yeah. It's on page 15.

Yeah, if I don't get to see it, can you send it to me to me? me, I want to see it. Oh, sure. Oh, sure. Oh, everybody, I'm on Facebook. And you should come over and look at some of my drawings on Facebook and leave comments and if you got something nice to say, I'll message you back again. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it.

You have a stuff. But you know, Martha, I can imagine that no one would have anything not nice to say because, you know, your work just speaks for itself. It's like it's speaking from the page. I mean, you do great work. Well, what I've noticed when I draw political figures, people will say something nasty about the person that I've drawn. Not the drawing itself, but the person.

They don't like the person, so they'll say something negative. Now, that's crazy. Yeah. That's not why I drew. That is cranesi right there. I mean, you know, people just need to keep their thoughts to themselves. I mean, everybody got their own opinion, but you don't come on somebody else's page doing stuff like that. I mean, that's your job.

That's what you do. You're artists. So for someone to come over and be disrespectful like that, I don't like that. Well, I realize that it's not really my artwork, but it's their opinion of the person. But I have to do political figures, draw them because that's what I do. That's what you do. And I think you draw from both sides. I mean, you draw Democrats, Republicans, or independents.

I've seen you draw all of them, really, to be honest with you. And I've drawn quite a few that I don't like, but I draw them because that's what I do. It's the time. and I don't think of the people I don't like. Yeah. I'll keep that to myself. Everybody has their own opinion. That's the people that they don't like.

I like the wine with the lady in jail, though, behind bars. Oh, okay. Let's not mention any names. I'm not, but I like it. They're not going to mention the name, but I like it. You know what I'm talking about. Yes, I do. I also did

I also did Belchie behind bars. Yeah, I was going to say him. We can mention him, can't we? I think a lot of people would agree with me on that one. Yeah, he is a crook of the crook that a cap would just see. I consider him a super villain.

Yeah. But, okay, that's my opinion. Yeah. Have you ever did one of, because I love the Kennedys, have you ever drew a picture of the son, J.F.K. Jr., the one that died in that my crush. You know, Tony should ask that, because one of the very first portraits that I drew was President John Kennedy.

Yeah. I wrote him a letter. I was 10 years old, and I wrote him a letter, and he sent me a picture of him and a picture of Jackie and his two kids. Is that sweet? And I drew his portrait for my mother. And I guess it was just after

his as a nation. Yeah. And she kept it. And when she passed, she gave it to my sister. And when my sister passed, her daughter gave it to me. So I have that drawing

that I did when I was 12 of John Kennedy. Boy, he responded. I like that. I still have the photo studies that when I was saying I still have them I just last week through Senator John Neely Kennedy A lot of people like him

And of course his nephew Robert Kennedy I've drawn him a few times And his wife at Cheryl I've drawn them Because I like him Yeah. He's doing a lot of good with the drugs and the poisons that they're putting in our drugs.

He's trying to get rid of a lot of that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can see that. We need to be.

We definitely need to be. Yeah. Well. I mean you're doing a good job. That's a story all in itself, the pharmaceutical industry, what they've done. Yeah. And the doctors, what they've done to the doctors, they're training now is they train doctors how to be drug dealers.

Yeah, they are. Right, and they're not really doctors anymore. If there's anything that you need, if you've got some kind of problem, they say, go see a specialist. Yeah. A lot of people are specializing. But Chris, my son has a problem,

and he went to with a doctor, He said, there's no cure for that. He says, but we can be tried these drugs for you. They're ready to prescribe drugs, sir. No cure, why would you prescribe drugs? Yeah. Yeah, that's why they're drug dealer. You could sell you drugs for the side effects.

If a rattlesnake bites you, you'd have side effects from that bite. Yeah. Yeah. They just name the side effects of different disease, like Tardic dyskinesia. That's the side effect of a drug, but they give it a name to tell you another drug for that. But they tell you,

don't take the first drug, because if you stop taking the first drug, you won't have the second effect. Yeah. They try to get you hooked on this stuff. These doctors, like you see, they're drug dealers. That's it. They made the pharmacy in the way they made over $2 trillion last year.

Big money makers is what they are. Yeah. They keep you sick so they can sell you drugs. Mm-hmm. That's kind of sad. Bobby Kennedy is trying to change that. I can call him Bobby because he's younger than me. Oh, is he?

Okay. Yeah, he is. Sorry, I'm getting old. I get old. You're not getting all. You're only just a couple of years old. Oh, you're not getting old. Oh, you're not embarrassing.

I'm feeling older lately because my two best friends when I was in high school, a year younger than me, died this year. That's the way. One. Darn. I'm getting old. my brother who was five years younger than me he passed away

my sister I actually see the year older than me she's thought now too I had a friend I'd say I hired him on he was a little odd looking I was looking for a painter back 30 years ago or so

and this young kid showed up to apply for the job and he had a red, white, and orange, a mohawk. Wow. I was going to hire this guy because he's artistic. Of course, when he showed up, he got rid of it, he had normal hair again, but he was the senior beastie golf champion. Wow.

So we went out playing golf and served increasing. my game just competing with him. But we became really good friends and then at 26 he died of brain cancer. Oh no. That was sad.

I don't like the C-word and we thought. No, and nowadays they've discovered and let me tell anybody's got cancer, Fendendezzo. You'll get rid of it. They've proven that it attacked cancer only

and there's no side effects. And it will kill cancer anywhere in your body and that's what I've been hearing and reading. How do you get it? I didn't want when you get your hands on it. Well, the vets were using it for a long

time. That and Ivermectin to get rid of parasites. And the doctors nowadays say, oh, no we don't have parasites and yes, we do. There was a mortician who started his business in 1995. And he just retired last year after 30 years of being a mortician.

He said he did over 800 autopsies. And without exception, every single one of the 800 autopsies had parasites. Oh, my God. So there are parasite cleanses of animals. No, I'm not going to say any brand names or anything, but there's several different treatments, and people are talking more about it now. Back in the 1800, it was normal. That's what they give right away for anybody. They say, if you don't have parasites, you live to be a little person, but if that parasite, you usually end up with cancer.

and they've discovered that most cancer diagnosis are actually parasite egg sacks. It's not cancer, but parasite egg sacks. Anyway. That's good information, though, Murphy. You're sharing some very good information today. Very good. Wow, you're telling me stuff I didn't even know. I'm like, I'm sitting there for like, man, John Nones and notes.

Well, I hope anybody out there that gets that C-word diagnosis that doesn't little be research on their own because ever since in 1913, cancer has gotten stronger and stronger, and they don't tell doctors about the cures, and the CIA has been keeping it secret. Oh, wow. They've released it now.

Doctors, they give them a hard time if they say any of this information, so they've been keeping it quiet. But now with the Internet, people are becoming more enlightened with what is available. Cancer clinics make a lot of money. They do. Chemo is a poison. It's actually aging harm. that they used in Vietnam to kill a lot of crops

and a lot of soldiers died from the agent arms but they put it into a pill form and they give it to people to kill cancer but it kills all the cells but that's the ancient earth stuff I didn't even know that wow yes that's your chemo is that you're a pill form

poison man that's why I hate that Cancer, man, that's just, oh. What a business. What a business. That's what it is. It's a business. Boy, Murphy.

Well, we talked a lot about a lot of things this morning now. You got to admit it. We want to rely. I encourage everybody to come make friends on Facebook. Murphy only on Facebook. And like I said, I've got a few.

I used to have a lot. I used to have like 5,000 friends on there. And then I got hacked. I got hacked. And now I'm a little more choosy about making friends. But I used to have friends with all the telescope sites and a lot of astronomical stuff. But there wasn't a lot of interaction. But now I have a lot of friends from school, high school.

was really fun. And just a lot of people are artists and people who like art. Yeah. If you're a young artist and you want some advice, let me see your work. And if I can help you

steer you in the right direction, I'll do that. Just the man. Just the man right here, y'all. Vincent man. Art Kenya. I had an engineering restarting. with architects and things like that.

Yeah. I enjoyed doing freehand more than mechanical drawings. When I started out, we didn't have computers. We had flag rules. So we did all our calculations on flag rulers. Yeah. So that got to show that you are really, you know, You come from the original.

You're old school. Yeah, you're old school, right, right. Exactly, yeah. Yeah. This is the man you want to see, y'all. He's over at Facebook. I don't think you're at Instagram or anything like that, are you? Not anymore.

Like I said, when I got back, I just didn't get them going. I am on a website called Nextdoor. It's supposed to be a local thing, but I've noticed that they've expanded quite a bit. Oh, wow. I've never heard of that one. I have to be careful on there. I put a drawing I did of Charlie Kirk, and somebody on there got upset about that. Boy, people in their field, isn't that something?

Some people. What? You know how it is. You get mad at a picture, you know, that's terrible. I know, I know. What do you do? Anything like it. Wow, you're an artist.

You're an artist. That's what you do. Oh, yeah. Speaking of that, I have mentioned to you Bill Blair. Yeah, I've heard of Bill Blair. come a good friend. Now, Bill, he did characters in costume

were like Star Trek and Babylon 5. He did Jakar. Some really, really good stuff. He's been robots. He's been cleaning on. Oh, goodness, gracious.

I had to go look. I threw little tender or so drawings of him and him himself. But he's in the in the book of world records for the number of characters. I got to get him on this podcast. I got to do it. He is delightful.

He's great, but he's getting to be my age too. Wow. I got to get him on the podcast. You think he'll hear this podcast? I don't know if he will, but I'll share it with him after it comes out. Hi, Bill. There you go. I come and get to.

He has a warm heart. He's really, really, really a nice guy. But he's a loner. Just like me. And just like me. I'm a loner too. I'm a loner. We're a group of loners.

We got our own group. We're a group of loners. Exactly. Exactly. I always tell people I'm a loner, but I'm never. alone, but I'm still a loner. So, but I'm a loner.

I enjoy being alone. I'm drawing a lot of the times and distraction. But I've listened to audio books and, you know, I'm always learning something new. And I'm fascinated by learning something new. And a lot of it inspires me. A lot of characters and stuff like that. But I do like the feedback.

when it's good for you. Yeah, and I think you answered the question just now that I'm about to ask, but maybe you didn't. Like when you were drawing, do you have like something playing in the background, like the television or music or the radio, things like that? Yes. I used to listen to music, but now I do audiobooks. Oh, okay, you didn't say audiobooks, okay.

Because I can't watch TV. or watching movies or anything while I'm wrong. Right. Chris will bring in a movie and stick it in my player once in a while and I'll look up. You can't watch it. The music usually is the clue.

It gets dramatic. The music gets dramatic. See, look up to see what's happening. Wow. Well, Murphy, Murphy. It's been a delight to have you here this morning. Well, it's a little different than the previous podcast that we did. The previous podcast, the first one, the first 30 years or so until I moved to Canada.

And then the second one was all the painting and stuff I did for the next 30 years while I was in Canada. And then the third podcast was what I've done since. And these 1900 drawings that I posted, I've done them all in the last 25 years. Boy, you know, what people were so interested in your podcast and your story is that it was like a little movie, you know, because you started from day one and you walked this on down and on down. And it was beautiful. You may think that you were doing a lot of rambling or whatever, but you were telling your story, and people were really interested. On this end, I could see that scene. And it was, it was not, it's not a boring story.

It's like a movie. Like a movie. I concurring, like I say, now that I'm over 70, I look back and I have an incredible memory. but sometimes I forget what did I go into this room for but I remember back when I the first day I started walking I remember the day I walked for the first

I didn't have a good memory but like I say now short-term memory because you're not focusing you're thinking about something else and you walk into a room What did I come in here for? Yeah. Well, I guess that's the way to get a little bit older, I guess. A little bit.

But I do remember. You know, oh, yeah, yeah. Why I came in here. All right. Especially if it's a bathroom. Oh, yeah, I remember why I came in here. Yeah, of course. Well, you got anything else you want to say today?

I think we've covered quite a bit. And it's been, oh, my God, it's been a nice, beautiful little hour here. Well, I'm surprised. I had that much to say because I talked more today than I do any other day. And I enjoy talking to you. I enjoy talking to you, too, Murphy. I hope I didn't say anything that upset. people because I did ramble a little bit there.

No, you didn't say anything that upset anybody. And if they did, woo-hoo. Yeah, well, like I say, I encourage people to go look at my artwork. I'm sure there's stuff on there. I keep looking at it. It inspires me still with some of the stuff that I've done over the years. Yeah. I do get in series.

I did a series of women on the beach. And that was a good story. Somebody asked me to do still life. And still life usually put some food on a table and something and draw. But my skill life, I did cars on tables. Yeah. Oh, boy. Toy cars, toy trucks.

And, of course, I put a window in the background. So the light came across. Yeah. My only verge of it. Anyway, if we're talking about art, I guess I could keep talking. You must be a car lover. I haven't been quite a bit of cars. Something in the future and just my idea.

Yeah. I remember that car you created. You said you put it out on the road. Was that in podcast two or one? Well, you created that car. You remember you created it? A hovercraft. Yeah, you created a car.

I never forget it. I'm not sure if it was a podcast one or two, but it was, you know, like I said, you got a movie, like a home story. You have to start from the first beginning. Then you got the middle part, then you got the ending. So, yeah, they have to go all the way back

to listen to one. So, but yeah, you created a problem. I did post links to all three on my Facebook site. Yeah. And I think you have all of them that you can go and visit on your site. I sure do. So if you guys missed those, go check them out. Go check them out.

Oh, you go check them out. They are very worth checking out. The story is, like you said, it's first. interesting, and you can learn something. So have a tablet, have a pen, be ready to take some notes because, I don't know if he tried to do this purposely. I don't know, but he'd be throwing out with his germs. You throw out timbs for anybody that's listening.

So go ahead. If you have anything, like Regina would like me to draw her with a deer. if you have any ideas or anything that we would like me to do, just let me know. Yeah. Because nothing is untouchable. I did a series of four farmers with tractors and stuff in the background. I did chefs cooking. I've done grooming shops with washing and trimming dogs.

I mean, the list is whatever inspires me today. Right. Well, that's amazing. I did a series of 10 drawings for my doctor, and she's hung them in all our different examining rooms and in their lobby. Yeah. And they were realistic.

They're all women doctors, of course. Yeah. I imagine. Well, I always thought that women were better nurses and more involved with people than men. Men are involved with stuff. Women are involved with people. So anyway, that's why I have a woman doctor. Yeah, yeah.

That's great. That's not a bad choice. Like I said, I worry about doctors. I had never had a doctor until now I'm old. Then I got Medicare and they paid for my doctor visits. So I go see the doctor and she's really nice. Yeah. I try to educate her too.

Yeah. Well, Roger, I thank you so much for my mugs. When you put in an order, he gets your nice, beautiful orders. And I'm just so thankful for my mugs and my pictures. and it was just so meeting at one time. It was like Christmas. So I just want to thank you for everything. I'm going to put in another order.

But I think this time I'm going to have it, pay for it to go like Federer Express. Well, you said you wanted to shower curtain. Yeah. Should I draw a nude picture of you for your shower curtain? No. Yeah, nobody gets to go over and take a shower and then you're looking at the picture on the sour screen.

Okay, I would have to put a towel around here or something. Yeah, you put a towel around it like Marilyn Monroe will have a shower around it. That might not be bad. If I say I'm going to put a new picture of you on there, you'll have millions of views on your website. You were believing. So many people are trying They'll probably order that. You'll probably run out.

You probably run out. It'd be like the Farrow Fawcett picture was. How she'd sold all that. I was million. There you go. Okay. Thank you so much, Murphy. I've enjoyed you so much this morning

and this podcast would be up today, y'all. Okay. And thank you very much. and we'll call this part four. Yeah, this is part four. And I always have fun with Murphy. He's just an amazing genius.

Genius! Thank you for that. So once again, I'm going to say, thanks for joining me here when Tina Swan Audio Series presents. You can contact me as Swarnerchina at T-mail.com. My website is being updated to,

a little bit, Regina Sworn.com. And I think I'm going to go ahead and say, see you later. I don't like saying goodbye. I don't like saying goodbye. But I can't say, see you later.

And thank you so much, Murphy, for being my wonderful, wonderful guest this morning. And thank you, Regina, for having me. I really enjoy you and your podcast.

Have a great day. And everybody, take care. Stay safe. And keep smiling. All right, keep smiling. Later, later. Okay, that concludes another great broadcast.

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