In this story, a poor boy named Ma Liang loves to draw but is too impoverished to buy a brush. He practices by sketching in the dirt with sticks until one night, an old man appears in his dream and gifts him a . To Ma Liang’s shock, he wakes up with the brush in his hand and discovers its power: anything he paints comes to life. Ma Liang uses his "dash of the brush" to help his village:
The dash is not a correction; it is a liberation from perfectionism. A Little Dash of the Brush
The execution of a dash changes drastically depending on the tool and paint. In this story, a poor boy named Ma