Mixing Color with a simple Brush Tool

Ok, I know this i probably a very rookie mistake, and the solution might be around the corner, but I really can get it.
I would like to use two colors to create a new one (like using a real color palette, on a real painting), using only the Brush tool, finding a middle tone between them. I've seen this simple procedure on Youtube, but I can't replicate it.
So I have two colors:
I sample from the bright-blu to lighten up the dark-blu and starting to find the first shade.
But as you can see below, it does not merge the two colors, creating a gradation, it only paint the bright-blu OVER the dark-one.
The same happens in reverse (if I paint with the dark-blu over the bright-one).
No matter how many time I paint over, in shorts I can only replace one color with the other one.
As shown on the video, I use a Hard Round Brush (not the Mixer Brush Tool), with 100% opacity and 50% flow.
Any idea?
Hanks in advance,
Franz

Thank you, Sudarshan.
Actually the first video explain what I'm trying to achive, but not how to do it.
As you can see, he doesn't use the Mixer Brush (widely covered in the second video), he uses a simple Brush tool. Painting with some yellow over red, he blends the two color and comes out with an orange. As simple as that.
In my case, when I paint with the bright-blue over the dark-blu, (as in the picture), bright-blu totally cover the dark-blu. Doesn't merge with it.
So you can get a middle tone of blu (as he got the orange)
So, I'm thinking I've might accidentaly selected (or de-selected) 'something' in one of the billions menus of Photoshop.

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