The Xara Trompe L'Oeil Room  Page 9
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Select the hat fur outline and then select the Shape Tool. Select the top left and top right nodes and press the Break at Points icon on the Infobar.

Delete the bottom portion of the hat band outline. Select the outline and the red ellipse and Combine Shapes > Subtract Shapes. Then select Break Apart (Arrange menu).

Delete the bottom portion of the ellipse.

Select and Group (Ctrl G ) both shapes.

Apply a Circular Fill using red and deep red. Resize the diameter of the fill and drag the center of the fill as shown.

NOTE : Unlike some applications I could mention (but won't), Xara treats groups of objects as one. Thus each object in a group of filled objects retains its individual fill characteristics when ungrouped unlike CorelDRAW. Ooops!

Ungroup (Ctrl U ) the two objects. I've moved them apart so you can see how the fill remains unchanged.

The reason for the two shapes will be revealed shortly.