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Copy the fill to the Clipboard (Ctrl c). Select all of the ellipses and Edit > Paste Attributes or press Shift Ctrl a.
Select the first set of cloned ellipses and Arrange > Combine Shapes > Subtract Shapes (Ctrl 2). Repeat this procedure with the second set of cloned ellipses. Draw a rectangle that is 98 pixels tall and center the rectangle just inside the first combined clone shape. We want to remove only the area shown above in blue dashed outline. Select the rectangle and the combined cloned shape and Arrange > Combine Shapes > Subtract Shapes. The result is shown above bottom right. TIP: Don't worry if you don't do this exactly right. Press Ctrl z or Edit > Undo and try again. Xara supports multiple undo and you can go back 10-20 steps if necessary.
Here comes the fun part. Select the Blend Tool (F7). Click on the far right ellipse and drag to the left to the next ellipse over. Drag again from the next ellipse in to the left to the next ellipse over. Continue doing this until you have created a blend of all the ellipses by dragging from one ellipse to the next. Change the number of Blend Steps on the Infobar to 100 and press Enter to apply the change.
Set the outline to none by RIGHT clicking on the small cross hatched box to the left of the screen color palette.
Ctrl click on the last ellipse on the left to select just it. Copy the ellipse to the Clipboard (Ctrl c) then paste it back on top using Edit > Paste in Place or Shift Ctrl v. Press the Flip Horizontally icon (the triangles). Apply 4 pixels feathering using the Feathering slider in the upper right area of the Infobar. Bring the 2 C-shaped cloned shapes to the front (Ctrl f) and align them as shown above top. Select each shape with the Fill Tool (F5) and move the 2nd and 3rd colors up a short distance and the 4th color down a short distance.
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