1. Open your crafting menu: You will have to first get your crafting table open. When you do this successfully, you have your 3×3 crafting grid.
2. Make a painting by adding items: A 3×3 crafting grid area should be located under the crafting menu. In order for you to make your painting, place wool and eight sticks in the 3×3 crafting grid.
3. To achieve your Minecraft recipe for painting, there is a patter you must follow to arrange your items. The first 3 columns on the first row would have a stick in each one. The second row would have a stick on the first box, wool on the second box, and a stick on the third box. In the last row, you will place a stick inside each of the three boxes in the row.
4. After crafting your paintings, you can now move your new item to the inventory. Then, you have successfully made a painting in Minecraft.