Orly Tiongco's Art

02/05/2026

I woke up one morning and I felt a strong desire to put into canvas our dearest first great granddaughter, Gusty. However, since I am just a self-taught artist with no formal schooling in the arts, an impressionist who started to paint at the age of 66 in New Zealand and avoided doing portraits, I was reluctant to start; but, I finally mustered the courage and picked up a canvas and made some sketches on it. I have finally a work in progress and it scares me that I might ruin it as put on more details. I like how it is progressing though and I ask again the Holy Spirit to guide me in its final stages, in a week or so, if Jesus would allow me the time. So that I do not stop, I am publishing it, unfinished.

26/04/2026

Sunsets, boats, lights and shadows have always fascinated me as an artist and when my son, James Edward, gave me a picture of a Manila Bay skyline taken by him from the vicinity of the Manila Yacth Club, I immediately felt the urge to use it as a photo reference. It took me almost a year to finish it because of urgent matters in life to attend to as well as some health issues; but, now, it is finally finished, signed and ready for art lovers and collectors to bring home.

Manila Bay Twilight
Medium: Acrylic on plywood-backed canvas
Size: 51 x 128.4cm (84 x160cm with Islaw Evangelista frame)
Circa: 2026
Artist: Orly Tiongco

09/04/2026

08/04/2026

Thank you Dr. Ramon Carlos Miguel L. Alemany for liking my painting enough to proudly display it in your clinic at Makati Medical Center and for allowing me the honor of posting these pictures on my page. You are truly a great doctor with a generous ❣️heart.

Title: Going Home
Medium: Acrylic on Gallery Wrap Canvas
Size: 24 x 20" x 1"
Circa: 2024
Artist: Orlando L. Tiongco

29/01/2026

I have been away again for quite a time and I am happy that God has given me some means and time to be able to get back to this painting that I started almost a year ago. I will try my best to really squeeze some time to finish this artwork in progress within two months. I hope this turns out to be a good art impression of the Manila skyline viewed from somewhere in the vicinity of the Manila Yatch Club .while the sun sets. I pray it will turn out well after some ^ finishing details and touches. It's a great feeling to be able to keep on painting and I thank God for his gift of art. I hope you like so far the progress I have made these last few days. Enjoy.

10/12/2025

It has been sometime since I've last posted anything and I would like share this almost finished, still untitled, creation meant for some one close to us, specially to Emilie. As I grow younger, my sinuses are getting more sensitive to paint and here, because I felt young as I paint, I forgot to put on my protective mash. I love the colors and I hope you will love it too. It's Acrylic on gallery wrap box canvas 24 x 40 x 2".

17/03/2025

Good morning all. I hope you will like my before and after haircut picture experience with my very professional barber, Jasper Dela Luna, at Chief Pompadour Barber Shop, Dasmarińas City, where, through my "Kwentong Barbero Art Project" , I have decided to share some of my artwork with those who may not have the luxury of time to visit museums and galleries but would be happy to enjoy and appreciate art while they get a well-deserved relaxation and great grooming at the hands of Jasper, my wife's approved barber for me.