Twisted Papers Downloadable Vintage Images was added in 2009 to expand the offerings of TwistedPapers.com. Our goal is to provide the best quality vintage images at a reasonable price.

Artist and Craftsman first
As avid collectors, artists and crafters in mixed media, collage and polymer clay, we, Russell White and Stan Pekarsky, recognized the need for simply affordable, high quality vintage art and illustration. We formed TwistedPapers.com to fill that need and allow us to share our collections with our peers. We have an online catalog with more than 25 vintage art CDs and hundreds and hundreds of found objects and ephemera.

As more and more of our customers have been asking for digital downloads, we knew that this was the next big step in marketing our products. Hence, TwistedVintageImages.com.

More than you probable ever wanted to know abot us:

Stan is now semi-retired (if working a full-time job as graphic designer for the local newspaper is considered "semi retirement"). He received his Chemical Engineering degree from NYU when he was 19 and really had no idea what he wanted to be when he grew up. At age 30 he spent a year on a kibbutz in Israel and then lived in Vienna for awhile studying gourmet cooking. When he returned to the states he owned and operated the Fig Tree Restaurant in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky for seven years. He even had a jazz club called Stanley J's in Louisville for awhile. Stan moved to Milwaukee and managed John Byron's, a gourmet restaurant for five years. Moving right along, he settled in Columbus, Ohio and worked as an intrastate stock broker, desktop publisher and then a graphic designer and has worked in the advertising departments as a graphic designer for several small printing companies.   

Russell is also "retired" due to health issues, his occupation was Fashion Designer. He has worked in the garment industry since 1972 and has designed clothes for Levi Strauss, Janzten, Catalina, Tomboy, International Male, Balboa Sportswear, Lavon Sportswear, The GAME, and others. In the mid 90's he switched from designing to technical design and sourcing for Structure, Sears, Express, and Coldwater Creek.  He was then the design director for Blair (a mail order catalog company).  He was asked to come back to Coldwater Creek, which i why we're once again living in Sandpoint, Idaho.  He has a BFA in art from San Francisco State and has taken design courses from Otis Parson's in Los Angeles. Russell has traveled all over the world and at last count has been to over 100 different countries. He has taught fashion design classes at Woodbury University in Burbank, California and night classes in design at the Learning Tree.

Both Stan and Russell have been Weight Watcher Leaders when we lived in Columbus. (But you would never guess that from looking at us now--we don't follow what we preached!)  Russell was a volunteer with the Columbus Reads program and with the local AIDS Outreach group.  When Russell lived in Los Angeles, California and Columbus, Georgia he was very involved with the local AIDS organizations; serving as community educational directors, Buddy Group leader and moderator for hospital drop-in groups. We both have done volunteer work in Sandpoint with VISTA, a reading program for grade school kids. Russell was Vice President of Sandpoint Leadership program sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Stan has served on the board of directors of the Panida, Sandpoint's historic theater.

Hobbies:  Russell is an avid collector--of everything. Stan says it should read "compulsive" instead of "avid", but we both love to shop. We have a major art collection, book collection, china collection, Harmony Kingdom collection, doll collection, stamp collection, teapot collection, pottery collection, AND rubber stamp (well over 9,000 stamps--but who's counting?) collection. We love to read, cook, travel, go to theatrical events, do photography, and our arts & crafts.

Russell passions are collage, book making and art stamping. Stan primarily works in polymer clay.  We have taught rubberstamping and paper-craft workshops.  After attending ArtFest in Port Townsend, Washington, we helped organized a journal swap which was featured in RubberStampMadness magazine.  We have also have had our rubberstamping work published in Vamp Stamp News.

In addition, we are always interested in expanding our interests--especially if it relates to our art.  We became Stampin' Up! demonstrators while living in Columbus, Ohio, and when we moved to Sandpoint we learned of a new company called Dream Impressions and became their first two-man team to sell rubberstamping products and were the top sellers for the company.  When we lived in Warren, PA, we created our own line of rubber stamps.

We have been back in Sandpoint now going on three years.  The town is located in the panhandle of Idaho and is 69 miles from the Canadian border.  Sandpoint sits on the fifth largest glacier lake in the United States--Lake Pend Orielle.  It is over 1200 feet deep in some spots--deep enough for Navy submarines to have used it for sonar testing during WWII.  Sandpoint is situated between the Selkirk and Cabinet mountains and is at the base of the second largest ski resort in Idaho--Schweitzer.  Needless to say the scenic view are breathtaking, especially as you are driving across the two mile Long Bridge that skims the lake as you drive into the town.

Lest we forget, the loves of our lives are our two dogs: our cockapoo, Christopher and our toy poodle, Beauregard.