Portfolio Review: Street Art Duo Dabs Myla Share Their Favorite Outdoor and Indoor Paintings

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"A tiger with diamond eyes tipping his hat with a dynamite side kick? It might not make much sense, but we really love how the composition of this wall turned out."

"We painted this spot last year on a trip back to Melbourne. We love painting things that suggest something crude, but you have to really look into it to see that's where it's coming from. We thought this was one of those until every person that came past the wall would say, 'COCK AND BALLS AND BOOBS...LOVE IT!' We have to work harder on our disguising methods!"

"This was at Art Basel Miami 2012 with TYKE and CRAOLA. It's always a treat to paint with these 2 talented guys!"

"This wall was painted in Culver City. We painted it a few days before Christmas Eve. The whole idea of the wall came from a tradition of ours that we have been doing ever since we moved to Los Angeles. Every year at Christmas, we put together a package of fancy chocolates, cookies, a 12-pack of socks, some donuts, a toothpaste, a toothbrush, some whisky, and an envelope with money in it, get in the car, and stop at the first homeless person we see on the street on Christmas night, and give it to them and drive away!"

"I feel like this painting really represents the aesthetic of what we want from our paintings. To us, it shows a good sign of progression in our work and shows a turning point for us, that I think led our work in the current direction it is traveling. It's still one of our favorite pieces to date."

"We both started from graffiti and graffiti letters. Over time, we started moving towards painting characters and less letter-based things, but we love to paint a piece! We don't really find ourselves doing it as much as we would like, but when we do, we always have a great time!! I think it's because we don't really paint letters as much anymore, which is why it's such a treat and so enjoyable!"

"I can't believe we painted a 5-story wall in the middle of downtown that suggested a titty fuck!!!"

"This piece is one of the most recent paintings we made for our upcoming show at Metro Gallery in Melbourne. For a while we wanted to create a painting based around the famous Melbourne train station Flinders Street!"

"We are always working really hard! Being a married couple who paints together is something quite unique and amazing! We are really lucky to have found each other! But it does put us in a situation, because we share the same passion and work ethic for creating that we don't really ever find ourselves doing anything other than that. This painting is about our first time being in the snow together-no paintings to do and no walls to paint! We were just driving through California together like a normal couple on vacation!"

"I feel like this painting really represents the aesthetic of what we want from our paintings. To us, it shows a good sign of progression in our work and shows a turning point for us that I think led our work in the current direction it is traveling. It's still one of our favorite pieces to date."

"This painting is titled Attempting to Time Travel. It's about our first trip to New York City. As graffiti writers from the other side of the planet, arriving in NYC is such a big thing! As a 16-year-old kid looking up to the people who did artwork inside the subway, it all seems like a million miles away! And to find yourself there, painting and meeting your heroes, is something that will stick with us forever!"

"This is the most recent installation we made for our Marvelous Expeditions show at Thinkspace. We love creating installations and environments for our work. This one was exceptionally fun, because we collaborated on parts of it with one of our great friends, Greg CRAOLA Simkins. The installation was also interactive. There where levers, pulleys, and doors that could be opened and pulled to reveal moving parts! Inside that tree, there was strip-tease music and a small strip club with squirrel patrons and a sexy canary lady getting down!"

"This is a portion of the installation we made for our BREAK NIGHT LOVERS show at Known Gallery. We really had such a great time putting that show together and think that it was a good representation of how we want to keep pushing our installations in the future (but at a much bigger scale)."