Colorful Wood Grain Wall Art DIY

Colorful Wood Grain Homemade Wall Art

Looking for a cool DIY wall art piece that you just can’t mess up?
This super simple idea is almost like a paint by number art project. My tween and I created this together, and the hardest part was deciding where to hang it in the house. After it was done, no joke, she wanted to hang it in her room. This can be customized with your own color palette.

If you know me, I LOVE LOVE LOVE color and so does my girl, just like the cool modern masterpiece of a wall we recently painted, or the upcycled toys we turned into brightly colored wall hooks.

Easy Wood Grain Wall Art Craft Project

So, for this project, I picked a bright color palette with six different colors. I used Americana acrylic paints in Tuscan Red, Mustard Seed, Bahama Blue, Coral Blush, Deep Periwinkle, and Bright Orange.

Wood Grain Painted Wall Art paint supplies

Last time I was in Home Depot I found these large wood panel squares that were about 2′ x 2′ in size for just $5 each. There is just something beautiful about the organic design of the wood grain. That wood grain pattern is what inspired this art piece.

Wood Grain Wall Art Painted step 1

I simply used thin paint brushes and my paint to outline of the darker areas of the wood grain. And I used a bigger brush to fill in the areas of the wood grain.

Wood Grain Wall Art Painted Step 2

We filled in each area in a random color pattern, using the 6 different colors.

Wood Grain Wall Art Painted Step 3

I love how this turned out!

Wood Grain Colorful Wall Art

Once the paint was dry, I wanted to finish the outside edges. This board was about 1/2″ thick, which was the perfect width for decorative washi tape (Amazon affiliate link). I applied washi tape all around the outside, and then sealed it with Americana decoupage, and let dry.

Wood Grain Wall Art Finish Step

Then to hang it on my wall I used 3M Command strips (Amazon affiliate link). I made sure to use the kind that was graded for heavier objects. No mess, no nail holes, just a beautiful piece of artwork on our living room wall.

wood grain wall art hanging supplies

Yes, I convinced my daughter that we could make another one for her wall if I could hang this one in our living room. ; )

Wood Grain Colorful Wall Art DIY

Honestly, this is one of my favorite DIY art pieces, and so simple to make!

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Pauline Molinari

I'm the crafty maven, and I'm on a mission to spread craftiness. With a fine arts degree, over 15 years experience in children's publishing, and a savvy, stylish, sassy tween daughter, I come armed with perspective and passion to inspire tween girls and their mothers to be crafty together. 

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  9 comments for “Colorful Wood Grain Wall Art DIY

  1. September 18, 2014 at 10:24 am

    So cool! this is such a clever idea, and the color palette look fantastic

  2. September 21, 2014 at 12:23 pm

    I love this!! I haven’t seen anything like it before. So simple but creative too!! I have to do this now.

  3. September 22, 2014 at 9:23 pm

    So cute, love this idea.

    • September 23, 2014 at 6:21 am

      Thanks so much for stopping by Rebecca!

  4. Angie
    October 7, 2014 at 10:28 am

    I LOVE this!! Already have the wood, just have to get the paints! Such a great idea, thank you! 🙂

  5. sustainable gardens
    April 1, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    I enjoy what you guys are up too. This type of clever work and reporting!
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