Easy Question: Brush tool overlaps dark?

Hi all,
I'm having an issue with my brush tool - this is probably an easy question to most of you.
Here is an example of my issue, when brush strokes overlap, a darker color is created:
I'm trying to brush with one flat color, with no overlaping effect. Here is a photo of what I'm trying to do, but this example was done with the pencil tool. I want to do this with the brush:
I'd like to be able to switch from the top style to the bottom style when needed.
Thanks for any help with this - the usual way I go about this doesn't seem to work unless I'm doing something wrong, open to options, is this a preferences issue?

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