Spring is finally blooming, and the lake is almost fully defrosted! We would like to formally welcome all of our seasonal Lovell residents and visitors back home. We look forward to seeing new and familiar faces stopping into the gallery!

See you soon!

~ Bill, Lynda and Captain

Fire and Light Art Glass is sadly going out of business. As we say farewell, we thought we would take the time to detail our Fire and Light inventory so that glass lovers can add to their collection before it's too late. 

At Harvest Gold Gallery, we currently have a collection of plates and goblets in stock. The goblets, measuring 7 inches tall, come in a variety of colors. We have one of each available in charcoal, citrus, and purple, and two available in celery.

We also have four sets of three plates. Each color, dark green, mint green, orange, and yellow, comes in sizes small (6.5"), medium (8"), and large (11"). 

And look how nicely they pair with Hudson Beach's stackable glass bowls!

All Fire and Light glassware is listed on our website, or you can come in for a visit and take a look at them yourself! Come see us today to complete your Fire and Light glassware collection. Click here to view our inventory. 

We were so excited to get the news that Megan and Dan are newly engaged! Here they are showing off the gorgeous ring that Lynda helped design for them. We can't get enough of the expressions of joy on both of their faces!

Dan grew up coming to stay on Kezar Lake in the summertime, so it's no surprise that this couple wanted their engagement ring to come from a town that brought back many happy memories. Lynda is especially proud of this ring and Megan is one lucky bride-to-be.

Megan and Dan, we wish you both the best of luck for your future. Stories of true love like yours put an extra little smile on all of our faces. 

The leaves are out, the birds are singing, and we hope everyone is enjoying the beginning of summertime, wherever you are.

It's hard to believe the wedding that launched all harvest gold weddings to follow happened 38 years ago today. That right! Today is our founders, Bill and Lynda's 38th wedding anniversary.  Congratulations! - Ashanah

Harvest Gold Gallery presents: Richard Wexler, People in Paris. A black and white collection of remarkable iPhone images all shot in the City of Life. The show will be held at Arabica Coffee on Commercial Street.  See more details below!

Richard is retired physician whose longtime interest in photography was recently reignited while living abroad. Now he's added another feather to his cap: street photographer!

Ashanah here!

I personally always have Africa on the brain. My junior year of college I did an abroad experience in Tanzania. A key thing I learned was how important local culture varies across the continent, and how important these traditions mean to the community. I one day hope to see as much of Africa as possible. Which is why when I discovered that our new craft artist is originally from Ghana  I needed to learn more.

As always I encourage you to come wonder around the gallery. You’ll be sure to notice we have a neat series of cups and coasters by Ebenezer Akakpo. Akakpo having continued his education at Maine College of Art is currently based out of Portland.  He connects to his home roots by using traditional Ghanaian symbols called Adinkra as his inspiration for his work. He intricately weaves the symbols together to enchant the product with meaning.

So what symbol might you find here at Harvest Gold?

Endurance

Loyalty

Bravery

Plus many many more!  You’ll just need to stop in or call to find out!

Rain rain go away! That is unless you are out there inspiring our artist to make delightful paintings like this one by Varvara Harmon.

Click here for more information on the painting 

With all of this snow on the ground its hard to imagine that soon we will be hosting our Plain Air events. We definitely are missing getting together to celebrate art. Going through our files I found some notes that we took during one of these events last summer and thought that it would be fun to share how much we learned about underpainting.  

An underpainting is a preparatory sketch or simple painting that serves as a base over which the artist than layers their final work. The underpainting often is used in oil and acrylic paintings to do a loose mock up of the layout of the piece, and will mark major light and dark points. The coloration and extent of the underpainting varies from artist to artist, as each has their own preferences on how much the underpainting affects or shows through to the final piece.

To someone like myself who has no technical or academic background in painting, it might seem like common sense to do an underpainting in black and white, or perhaps green if you were doing a landscape. A color that would blend into the overpainting I thought, or rather, a color that wouldn’t clash with the overpainting.

So imagine my surprise when I learned that many artists of landscapes use a bright orange to do their underpaintings! Using the color burnt umber can look muddy when layers are placed on top, whereas using yellow ochre stays a clear golden honey color. 

The finished product comes out with vivid bright colors 

Be sure to follow our social media accounts so that you don't miss out on this summers plain air events. 

First photo

“Underpainting: Why You Need to Do It.” Jerry's Artarama Online Art Blog, 4 Apr. 2016, www.jerrysartarama.com/blog/underpainting-why-you-need-to-do-it/.