I have a page(node) with a certain ID. 
On the front page, I want to pull a field called field_image1 and field_link1.

To do that I added the following to my themename.theme:

    use Drupal\node\Entity\Node;

    function themename_preprocess_node(&$variables) {

        $vanilla_spice = Node::load(61);

    }

page--front.html.twig:

    {{ kint(vanilla_spice) }}

When I visit the page, the variable is null :(

How can I load this information inside the variable?

Note: I based myself in this answer [here][1], but even if I assign a normal string to the vanilla_spice variable

    $vanilla_spice = "tetsing the variable";

I still see a null.


  [1]: https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/144947/how-do-i-access-a-field-value-for-an-entity-e-g-node-object