So, thanks to
ShampooTeacher's glorious bead sprites and painting skills, I got inspired to start doing some myself! Granted, I have no experience with canvas, and very little with paint, but I did my best!
My biggest complaint is that, in mixing the colors for this, I made them look far too realistic, nothing like the bright background to Mario, or even the brighter background in the coop itself. Oh well, just more to learn from
The detail of the process can be seen in my newly created blog
here!