The process for successful watercolor painting, is to avoid the areas to be left white and apply the lightest washes first, gradually working your way towards darker washes. Try to cover large areas fairly loosely in the early stages of the painting, applying tighter detail towards the end.
COLOUR HARMONY
There are a few things to remember to maintain color harmony throughout your painting.
Limit your palette
Dipping into twenty different colors spread around your palette is tempting but usually results in a discordant, muddy work. Limit your colors to just two or three, particularly in the early stages of a painting.
Foreign colors
How often do you look at a painting and see an area of colour that doesn’t seem to fit? The remedy to this problem is simple, introduce more of the discordant colour to the rest of the painting.Tie up color
A few fine calligraphic lines in a harmonious color will usually tighten up a disjointed color arrangement. Use a #1 or 2 liner brush or pen and ink. It is important to use just one color for these lines or you run the risk of adding to the confusion. If you use ink, a fine spray of water quickly after the ink is applied, will soften the lines and create some interesting feathering effects.
Darks Avoid neutral darks - a painting will have more life and character if the darks tend to either warm or cool.CENTRE OF INTEREST
For a painting to be successful the centre of interest should be obvious and well positioned. Avoid placing the centre of interest in the middle of a painting (either horizontally or vertically) unless you are after a static, formal composition.
Keeping the centre of interest an unequal distance from each side helps position it correctly. Breaking the horizontal and vertical axis roughly in the ratio of 1:2 will also help to place the centre of interest. 
DON'T OVER WORK
A painting filled with carefully laboured detail from one edge to the other can be difficult to look at. If you like to work with fine detail, consider including some areas of relief.
Credits: http://www.johnlovett.com/beginer.htm ( John Lovett-Watercolor & Mixedmedia Artist )
-CaiTing ;)
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