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Virginia LaVorgna

Aclaimed American doll artist Virgina LaVorgna has developed these special china paints for dollmakers.  Pure and without fillers, economical, suitable for oil and waterbase



First Kiss 
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Victorian Pink.  Apply lightly and blot for the under colour on French lips or use alone for baby doll lips and cheeks.  Perfect all-over blush on pink bisque.

  • £4.50


VLV-F02

Old Masters Red 
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True French red with rosy undertones.  Use for all-over blushing of white heads, deep lip shading, cheeks, eye dots, small nose dots and lip accent lines.  It will never turn orange. 

  • £4.50


VLV-F01

French Brow 
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Medium ash brown with green undertones, this popular colour was used on both French and certain German dolls.

  • £4.50


VLV-F04

French Manicure 
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Manicure pink.

  • £4.50


VLV-FRMAN

Red Gold 
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The red-orange colour used on most German dolls, notably the charachter children and babies.  Unlike similar colours, Red Gold has depth of tone.

  • £4.50


VLV-F09

Rosy Cheeks 
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The standard German cheek colour with blue undertones.

  • £4.50


VLV-F11

Deep Auburn 
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A favorite colour with German manufacturers, this brow colour is found on many Kestners and some K*R dolls.  Deep Auburn was also used by S.F.B.J. for eyebrows and lashes on a majority of thier dolls.

  • £4.50


VLV-F13

Blond Brows 
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This beautiful dark blond is a very effective German colour with pale blonde wigs.

  • £4.50


VLV-F14

Base Coat 
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  • £4.50


VLV-BASE

Blue Eyes 
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Just a hint of violet undertones makes this an authentic eye colour for lady, children and China dolls both French and German.

  • £4.50


VLV-F21

China Doll Lips 
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Chinas were painted in every shade of orange but the most deirable dolls had lips, eyeline and cheeks decorated in this soft pinky-peach.  Some later German lady dolls were painted in the same colour.  Lovely for medern dolls too.

  • £4.50


VLV-22

Oriental Blush 
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When this lovely amber is use as an all-over blush on white porcelain the resulting colour is identical to to the best Oriental dolls.

  • £4.50


VLV-F19

Barley Brown 
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Marvelpous for those smudged baby brows and the pale one stroke eyebrows on some German children.  Correct for French and German dolls.

  • £4.50


VLV-17

Very Dark Brown 
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This is the deepest of the eyebrow colours and yet it gives a soft appearance.  Jumeau used this colour on many of his heads made after 1907 and Depose Tete Jumeau.  This colour is also correct on some dolls by Kestner.

  • £4.50


VLV-F18

Charcoal 
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Great colour for eyelashes on all German dolls.

  • £4.50


VLV-20

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