Nature of Color
Your Field Guide for Exploring Color in the Natural World
By Kimberly Collins Jermain
Color is one of Mother Nature’s most elegant ideas and the most powerful visual tool to inspire human response. After teaching classical art and color theory for over 35 years, Kimberly Collins Jermain believes the visual skills we need to create art and to design interior spaces can be seen and understood best right outside your back door.
Nature of Color is a field guide for exploring color theory on hikes, beach walks, while gardening, or when exercising outdoors. Jermain’s simple approach to color theory will train your perceptions and give you the tools you need to solve everyday problems and create with color-confidence. Unlike most color theory texts, Nature of Color is an active practice of outdoor adventure. As you joyfully explore and experience color outdoors with Nature of Color, you will understand the importance of keeping nature’s exquisite lessons in mind as we navigate and share our natural world.
Nature of Color offers a fresh, simple hands on approach to color theory, blending artistic exploration with the beauty of the natural world. Perfect for art and nature lovers alike, this book transforms outdoor adventures into creative color experiences.
The book is filled with practical exercises that can be done on hikes, beach walks, or in your own backyard, making it a great resource for those looking to integrate creativity into their daily lives.
Kimberly Jermain’s expert guidance helps readers develop a deeper understanding of color, empowering them to use color confidently in art, design, and everyday life.
“Let nature inspire your interest in the study of color”
“Jermain’s perspective on color has influenced the way I view the natural world.
As a marine biologist, I study biodiversity - which frequently corresponds to a diversity of colors. This powerful little book will make you stop and think twice when hiking or at home to appreciate the palette around you. ”
“This is a field guide for a reinvention of our relationship to color but it is also a guide and joyful antidote to a world grown too thin and gray from the habit of living in only two dimensions.
Jermain is a landscape artist and color designer and passionate not only about observation but about multi-sensory immersion in nature with a good dose of science. She entices us out, suggests the tools, method, and even what to wear to ensure unfettered experience. Indulge in this intimate invitation to understand anew the potent potential of color.”
“Jermain explores the colors of Nature as she illuminates a reader’s vision in this wonderful book.
An artist/designer who teaches, her ability to awaken her students’ minds to SEE is beautifully explored. She enhances their vision and ability to wonder.” ”
“Exploring nature like a painter”
Kimberly Collins Jermain - Artist In Residence - Found Color Student Workshops
Shoals Marine Laboratory, Remote Field Station, Appledore Island, ME > Link to Travel Journal
Palau International Coral Reef Center, Republic Of Palau > Link to Travel Journal
