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Enzie,
You have been armed with a lot of very good advice and I have taken more than a few notes for my own selfish needs.
Another consideration, in addition to hue, value, and intensity of color, is the one that should be part of the planning stage. And that is the need to compose in a way that the objects in a background are drawn and painted as though they continue behind the foreground subject. Or to put it another way, the foreground figure should overlap background shapes. This avoids the two dimensional look that occurs when objects are cut out and pieced together. Your objects were drawn and darkened just as they approach the figure in attempt to make them go behind and, instead, it tends to make them appear as isolated, two-dimensional shapes. As objects they tend to begin and end at the edge of the figure. The shapes in the lower right corner that look like they are poking the merchant in the rump will still look discomforting in any new color or value. As big and intense as the pumpkins are, they stay behind the fruit/veggies for the reasons I noted above.
Hope this helps.
Despite the problems it might bring, I like your spirited color approach.
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