After restretching my canvas with water and waiting for it to dry, i went back to my painting and started on the feathers. Originally, i was going to go to a craft shop and buy some feathers that I could then collage into my painting to give it a more 3d shape and be less flat. However, i started to paint the feathers in as i thort this wud give the collaged feathers a nice background to go against. When i started painting though, i found i liked the detail in the feathers i was creating and it seewmed a shame to blot this out with a collage of feathers, so i decided against it and carried on with painting the feathers.
Also, i primed my canvas with a standard primer of watered down PVA. managed to do 2 coats of this through the day.