Impressionist brush only changes white and very light colours

I'm new to Photoshop Elements and am trying to grapple with the Impressionist brush.  It seems to function like CS5's Art History brush except that I cannot get it to affect mid and dark value areas.  It appears no matter what the area or tolerance settings to change only whites and very light colours.  Is this a known issue or am I missing something?
Thanks.

Try resetting the impressionist brush tool by clicking on the
little downturned arrow and choose reset tool.
It's somewhat similar to photoshop except, you can't choose
a history state to paint from, so make sure your not painting
on a blank layer. To effect the photo, you have to paint on the actual layer
that photo is on.
MTSTUNER

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