CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Bursts of color can come in tiny packages.

Illustrator and artist Scott Partridge of Charlotte welcomes the challenge of downsizing his wildlife-inspired work for a project that gives new life to the cigarette machines many might think are obsolete.

“Make a big impact in a little size,” Partridge says, mounting his images of birds and other animals on blocks that fit in the palm of his hand.

“Put a sticker on the back, I like write my name on it,” he explains.

You might say, ‘that’s a wrap,’ as in cellophane. Then, the prints move on to the unconventional marketplace.

“They really like the surprise of kind of not knowing what they’re going to get,” he told Queen City News.

The inventory goes on to a gallery space in Downtown Winston-Salem, but tha

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