It certainly was a stupid question.
The right way to go is
1. Create a class the subclasses UIView. Override the drawRect method.
- (void)drawRect

CGRect)rect {
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 2.0);
CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, [UIColor redColor].CGColor);
CGContextMoveToPoint(context, 10.0f, 50.0f);
CGContextAddLineToPoint(context, 10.0f, 200.0f);
CGContextStrokePath(context);
}
Pretty easy