Art History Brush Tool

The art history brush tool doesn't work after saving and turning off my Mac. Re-opended my file from yesterday and the Art History Brush Tool paints in white, not sure how to continue with the brush tool?

I am trying to continue to paint with the Art History Brush. As per the picture caption you can see how much I need to finish (image with out background).
Duplicating the Background layer and taking a new Snapshot in the History panel works but it doesn't fill in all the white spaces as something is in the first layer that was created yesterday.

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  • Art History Brush help please

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