Is there anything that prevent me from using System.Drawing.Brush as a property in a custom control?

private System.Drawing.Brush _LightBrush;
public System.Drawing.Brush LightBrush
{
	get{return _LightBrush;}
	set{_LightBrush = value;}
}

then in the OnPaint() event I use the brush to fill a region.

I do not receive a compile time error but I do catch an exception at run time (it is an ArgumentNullException stating that value can not be null). I would like to change the property to a different value in the designer but I can't because it is disabled ("grayed out").

I would like the user of my control (that would be me) to be able to select the brush color at design time in the property sheet.

I tried making the property of type System.Drawing.Color and then try to somehow declare a brush with that color in the OnPaint() event, but I am kind of stuck on that one.

Also something that might help me if I could remember how to assign a default value to a property.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Einar

UPDATE:
Using DefaultValue:

DefaultValue(System.Drawing.Brushes.Cyan)

Gives me the following compile time error:

An attribute argument must be a constant expression, typeof expression or array creation expression.

System.Drawing.Brushes.Cyan seems pretty darn constant to me.