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Tony Luongo, a self-taught award-winning artist, illustrator and designer whose portraits have garnered
national recognition lives in Manchester, NH. His greatest artistic passion is in portraiture and figurative
work in both oil and charcoal. He also enjoys plein air painting when he needs to get out of the studio.
His inspiration comes from masters like John Singer Sargent, Richard Schmid, Norman Rockwell,
J.C. Leyendecker, Quentin Blake, and Bill Watterson. He continues to improve his skills and is always
trying to impress his loving wife, little boy and baby girl.

Since he was a boy he wanted to be an artist but never had the focus or opportunity. Never giving up on
his dream he drew constantly, completed commissioned portraits and continually pushed himself to improve
his technical ability. In his early twenties he decided that people spend too much time “at work” to not enjoy
what they are doing. That was when he decided that he IS going to be a successful artist and illustrator.
His focus on his art has been so intense since that he has had to miss family gatherings and parties because
the painting he was working on needed him, and he needed it.

Being an avid comic strip and animated movies fan, Tony spends hours drawing cartoons and comics too.
One day while watching a home improvement show he thought that there must be some way to help kids with
his talent. In 2006 he started to illustrate coloring books and self publishes them to raise money for children’s
causes and donate some to area children’s hospitals.

Tony’s abstract paintings are a way for him to relax and just enjoy the youthful pleasure of putting paint on
canvas. He cannot make a “mistake” because if a painting is not turning out the way he likes then he lets it dry
and paints over it. This is one of the ways he creates subtle texture and beautiful color, both bold and subdued,
that evoke passion and emotion. His work can be found in private collection throughout the United States.