Does 'To keep the colors fresh, he dabbed the carcass with blood from a pail, then grabbed his paintbrushes to capture those lurid reds on canvas.' stand independently of the premise 'Many questioned why he was painting with blood in the first place.', neither following nor contradicting it?
To keep the colors fresh, he dabbed the carcass with blood from a pail, then grabbed his paintbrushes to capture those lurid reds on canvas.###Many questioned why he was painting with blood in the first place.