Hi,
Yes, they were all hand painted by Ray Nichols and Jill Cypher (although I believe that most of the pages that we used were Jill's).
With paste paper, you can try to get the same look, but it is impossible. The one that PS has looks like the base color was red and aqua and the gold was laid on top and then combed. The other one shown is one of my copies.
All copies of that book were different.
Paste paper is pretty cool stuff....
Bill