I HAD NO creative computing experience before starting the Creative Computing City and Guilds 7822/42 at Missenden Abbey at the end of last year so it was a leap in the dark.
The programme used on this course was Paint Shop Pro 8 and our tutor was Hazel Credland who naturally set us some homework for the first weekend.
The brief was to draw a number of lines in different ways. A line is a mark or stroke that is longer than it is wide. 
There are two types of line, straight and curved, with many variations and combinations. Line is all about us, it can suggest different emotions such as anger, happiness, peace, anxiety, confusion etc.
The computer is well equipped with several tools in the graphic toolbox to make a vast array of marks on the screen. Develop line using traditional and unusual media, collect advertisements, pictures, and photographs and paintings that show how the use of line is an important element in its composition. I found it difficult to start. Once you start to list line or lines as I did there was no end.
The usual questions also arose ‘where do I start’ and ‘what about presentation’?
An extract from an article by Penny Usher - Issue 51