Picturing success: Saskatoon artist uses ingenuity to make sales

Robynn Olson can still remember when she had to plead with the Starbucks on Broadway to put her paintings on display.
The young artist said when she was starting out around seven years ago, she had heard the coffee shop would put up the work of local painters on the wall to be sold.
“I went in all the time and was like, ‘Hey, can I put my stuff up?’ And they were like, ‘No,’ ” Olson said. “I just kept asking … to be a squeaky wheel is a good thing