Drag in the 'Brush' composition, then add another solid (make sure it is 3840 x 1080 size).

Create another large comp at 3840 x 1080 and name it 'Brush on matte'.

Hopefully now it looks something like this:

Add an adjustment layer to the top and add a 'Roughen Edges' effect and set its scale to 25 (the effect scale, not the layer scale).

Add another solid layer below the texture layer and set its Track Matte value to 'Alpha Matte'.

Select all layers and precompose them (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + D).

Set the Displacement Map Layer to the Brush Map layer and set the Max Horiz Dist to 350 and the Max Vert Dist to 0.

Add an adjustment layer between the two layers and add a 'Displacement Map' effect.

Prcompose this layer and name it 'Brush Map', then turn off its visibility.

Click off 'Uniform Scaling' and set the Scale Width to 5000 and the Scale Height to 15.

Set the contrast to 350 and then unfold the Transform section.

Create a new solid layer above and add a 'Fractal Noise' effect.

Add a 'fast box blur' effect and set the blur radius to 120.

Use the pen tool to create a shape layer that looks something like this:.

Create a new composition, sized 1920 x 1080 and name it 'Brush'.

Here what mine ended up looking like (Fill set to red colour and black is transparent):

You can add a 'Fill' effect to the white solid layer to control the colour.

(This will set the whites of the layer above to transparent.)

Set it's track matte value to 'Luma Inverted Matte'.

Add another copy of the white solid layer below the precomp layer.

Select all layers and precompose them by hitting control (command on Mac) + Shift + c.

Drag the lefthand slider until your blacks are nice and dark.

Add an adjustment layer above all others and add a 'Levels' effect to it.

Add a white solid to behind everything.

Use two copies of the splatter image and scale and rotate them until you like how it looks.

Use two copies of the brush stroke texture and scale them up and stretch them in the X direction, so that they create one long stripe across the screen.

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