Technique is not the secret of paintings. It's not using tissues, toothbrushes, sponges, cotton swabs, palette knives, or razor blades along with your artist paint brushes. Nor is it regarding "put a little blue here." All of these have a place in our bag of drawing and painting actions ... but the real secret of picture making is composition.
Paintings have underlying principles that manage the elements of the picture in order to bring the eye of the viewer into and around the image in an interesting way and to organize the elements into a cohesive whole.
In a painting of a sky, mountain range and valley let's say you want the sky to control. You would make the sky ½ the height of the canvas (3/6ths).
To be sure, an understanding of technique, color theory, form, drawing, perspective and proportion need to be studied and developed but they should serve on an fundamental structure.
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